Hello Michael, On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:35:05AM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
"Not easy" would have been more appropriate. It is still basically what malloc() does.
Well, yeah, but as Tim said pymalloc gets its wins from assuming that each allocation is the same size. You could combine my idea with some other allocation scheme, certainly, but given the relative paucity of variable length types and the reduction in allocator overhead using something like pymalloc gives us, I think it might just be easier to not do them any more. Of course, I don't see myself having any time to play with this idea any time soon, and it's probably not really beefy enough to get a masters thesis from, so maybe we'll never know.
Ok. I expect it to be much easier to experiment with with PyPy anyway. Armin