less ram usage

[Josiah-tan]

In regards to trying to get plover on something like an ox64 (less than 64MB), is it possible to reduce the amount of RAM required to run plover?

[user202729]

A bit difficult.

Last time I try the bottlenecks are mostly the American word list (removing this won't affect the result too much) and the dictionary itself (main.json is merely 4MB, but Python small string overhead means it gets much larger? Maybe try your luck with C extension or something).

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(Actually this is probably solvable in pure Python by packing everything into a bytearray then binary search on it for dictionary lookup...? But that sounds more hacky than just implementing a dictionary in C)

[Josiah-tan]

Strangely, even when testing without dictionaries, Plover still uses a relatively large amount of ram

[user202729]

Yes as I mentioned earlier, try deleting assets/american_english_words.txt? (may need running from source)

[Josiah-tan]

ran from source on linux but I'm not sure if there's much difference

[benoit-pierre]

Run without the GUI, use SQLite dictionaries, don't load the wordlist…

VIRT	RES	SHR
858M	206M	55920	normal
420M	140M	8564	no GUI (PyQt5 not installed)
446M	83688	9636	no GUI, SQLite dictionaries
323M	28360	9504	no GUI, SQLite dictionaries, no wordlist

[user202729]

Ah right, I wrote that one before. Even I forgot.

https://github.com/user202729/plover-sqlite-dictionary

These days my computer has sufficient RAM that I don't need the plugin.

[Josiah-tan]

Is there a way to get a wheel for plover without having PyQt5 installed and without the wordlist?
Running plover from source on a raspberry pi is very difficult (not sure if the script that Benoit gave works because plover now uses tox)