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Re: GDB and scripting languages - which


Jim Blandy wrote:

In the tests shown here, Python uses about 2.4x as much memory as Lua,
and 4% as much memory as GDB does debugging itself, having set and hit
a breakpoint on main.

Thanks Jim for getting some quantitative data into this discussion.

I think both Python and Lua's resource consumption is reasonable for our application.

Indeed, I think these figures show that resource consumption is not a factor in the decision.


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