[Python-Dev] update on memory leaks in 2.2 (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:33:06 -0500

Tim Peters writes:

-0. When we turn on pymalloc in 2.3, blocks will get allocated by magic, and more space-efficiently than you're going to do by hand (it bites one malloc overhead per 256KB). pymalloc will likely be a little slower than a

That's good enough for me! I'll look forward to ripping the free list out completely.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation