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"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in messagenews:MzVF6.17308$qc2.5605564 at typhoon.southeast.rr.com...    [snip]> In other words, the memory allocated to a process running a Python program> moves upwards from the current high-water mark, never downwards.Sure does on Windows NT (and, others have reported, Linux).> It's actually quite unusual for programs to give back memory to the OS in> any case, except the special one of "I've finished, you can have it ALL".This definitely used to be the case, but my impression is thatthings have become quite a bit better (mostly at the C-runtimelibrary levels).Alex

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