[Biopython-dev] SeqFeature and FeatureLocation objects (was Bio.GFF)

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:
> I took a look at the resource usage of these objects versus
> a lightweight implementation. For a GFF file with 70k features, the
> maximum memory usage is 128M versus 111M for the lightweight
> version. So the improvement is rather modest, ~15%.

How did you measure these memory figures?

And was your 15% comparison between the current "heavy" SeqFeature +
FeatureLocation system as in CVS, and my lightweight alternative
described earlier?

Peter