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

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:50:42 +0100

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:

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.

AFAIK, pymalloc still has problems with threading, so I unless this has already been resolved, I don't think it's a good idea to enable it by default just yet (since threads are enabled per default too).

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