[Python-Dev] Mixing memory management APIs (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 07 Feb 2002 12:52:38 +0100

Michael Hudson wrote:

> >>I've checked in a patch for the UTF-8 codec problem. Could you > >>try Purify against the CVS version ? > >> > > > > with-pymalloc or without or both? > > > Both if possible -- the leakage showed up with pymalloc AFAIR :-) I thought we were chasing memory stomping, not leaking, this time around...

Both, I guess: pymalloc doesn't behave well with overallocation and codecs use this technique a lot. I reduced the overallocation in the UTF-8 encoder down from 3size to 2size which should cover the most common cases better than before.

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