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

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:26:23 -0500

[Tim]

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

[Andrew MacIntyre]

It works just fine when pymalloc is configured normally (~2% speedup).

When running what?

The performance hit came when I changed all interpreter memory management to pymalloc.... (to deal with a pathological case in the parser)

I'm not sure what that means. Rather than try to explain it (trust me: it won't work ), if you post a patch attached to a bug report on SourceForge, we can see whether the same is true on other boxes.