[Python-Dev] pdb segfaults in 2.5 trunk? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Apr 11 03:16:55 CEST 2006

Tim Peters wrote:

The PyObject memory family is generally faster and more memory-efficient for small allocations than the PyMem memory family. Lines of source code, and encoding strings, are usually small enough to exploit that. The "ob" in obmalloc.c doesn't really have anything to do with objects either. PyMemSmallMalloc (etc) may have been better names (although I doubt that ;-)).

However, if they're not exclusively for objects, having "Object" in the name would seem to be highly confusing, perhaps dangerously so. (Person A writes PyObject_Alloc(some_chars), Person B writing the code to free it thinks "What??? That can't be right!" and uses PyMem_Free.)

-- Greg

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