Memory use in CPython and MicroPython
Memory use in CPython and MicroPython
[Front] Posted Jun 21, 2017 19:29 UTC (Wed) by jake
At PyCon 2017, Kavya Joshi looked at some of the differences between the Python reference implementation (known as "CPython") and that of MicroPython. In particular, she described the differences in memory use and handling between the two. Those differences are part of what allows MicroPython to run on the severely memory-constrained microcontrollers it targets—an environment that could never support CPython.