Zero Waste: Tricks to Recycle (Memory) Better
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The talk explains how memory waste hurts developers and explores how Python’s garbage collector and its underlying algorithms work (focusing on CPython). It presents techniques and tools for analyzing memory usage and strategies to reduce a program’s memory consumption through debugging and code-analysis approaches.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Python memory management
- 7:10Measuring memory usage
- 11:54Optimization strategy
- 13:05Short-lived variables
- 16:21Generators and readability
- 18:11Slots and namedtuple
- 20:20Weakref for weak references
- 23:10Summary and balance
- 24:16Q&A
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