[Python-Dev] Benchmarking the int allocator (Was: Type of range object members) (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Thu Aug 17 13:22:53 CEST 2006


On 8/16/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Guido van Rossum schrieb: > I think the test isn't hardly focused enough on int allocation. I > wonder if you could come up with a benchmark that repeatedly allocates > 100s of 1000s of ints and then deletes them? The question is: where to store them? In a pre-allocated list, or in a growing list?

Or you can expose Py_INCREF to Python code. I'm thinking about that for big-mem tests anyway ;-)

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