[Python-Dev] Activating pymalloc (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:25:34 +0100

I just performed some benchmark of pymalloc, compared to glibc 2.2 malloc, using xmlproc (a pure-Python XML parser) as the sample application. On an artificial input document, the standard configuration ran 16.3s; the configuration with pymalloc ran 15s.

I recommend to enable pymalloc by default; I can commit the necessary changes if desired.

Regards, Martin