Saving 9 GB of RAM with Python’s __slots__ · Oyster.com Tech BlogAlgorithms, insights, and a few lines of code from Oyster.com’s engineering team. Want to work with us? Apply via Oyster or TripAdvisor. Saving 9 GB of RAM with Python’s __slots__ 17 Nov 2013 by Ben We’ve mentioned before how Oyster.com’s Python-based web servers cache huge amounts of static content in huge Python dicts (hash tables). Well, we recently saved over 2 GB in each of four 6 GB server p
