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'''
By default Python uses a dict to store an object’s instance attributes. This is really helpful as it allows setting arbitrary new attributes at runtime.
Python can’t just allocate a static amount of memory at object creation to store all the attributes. Therefore it sucks a lot of RAM if you create a lot of objects (I am talking in thousands and millions). Still there is a way to circumvent this issue. It involves the usage of __slots__ to tell Python not to use a dict, and only allocate space for a fixed set of attributes. Here is an example with and without __slots__
'''
'''
In [1]: import ipython_memory_usage.ipython_memory_usage as imu
In [2]: imu.start_watching_memory()
In [2] used 0.0000 MiB RAM in 5.31s, peaked 0.00 MiB above current, total RAM usage 15.57 MiB
In [3]: %cat slots.py
class MyClass(object):
__slots__ = ['name', 'identifier']
def __init__(self, name, identifier):
self.name = name
self.identifier = identifier
num = 1024*256
x = [MyClass(1,1) for i in range(num)]
In [3] used 0.2305 MiB RAM in 0.12s, peaked 0.00 MiB above current, total RAM usage 15.80 MiB
In [4]: from slots import *
In [4] used 9.3008 MiB RAM in 0.72s, peaked 0.00 MiB above current, total RAM usage 25.10 MiB
In [5]: %cat noslots.py
class MyClass(object):
def __init__(self, name, identifier):
self.name = name
self.identifier = identifier
num = 1024*256
x = [MyClass(1,1) for i in range(num)]
In [5] used 0.1758 MiB RAM in 0.12s, peaked 0.00 MiB above current, total RAM usage 25.28 MiB
In [6]: from noslots import *
In [6] used 22.6680 MiB RAM in 0.80s, peaked 0.00 MiB above current, total RAM usage 47.95 MiB
'''