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

Andrew MacIntyre andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:30:33 +1000 (est)

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Tim Peters wrote:

Lots of people have reported modest speedups in non-pathological programs too (except on OS/2 EMX, or something like that).

It works just fine when pymalloc is configured normally (~2% speedup). The performance hit came when I changed all interpreter memory management to pymalloc.... (to deal with a pathological case in the parser)

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