[New-bugs-announce] [issue13483] Use VirtualAlloc to allocate memory arenas

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

Similar to issue #11849, this patch proposes to use VirtualAlloc/VirtualFree to allocate the Python allocator's memory arenas (rather than malloc() / free()). It might help release more memory if there is some fragmentation, although I don't know how Microsoft's malloc() works.

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components: Interpreter Core, Windows
files: va.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 148399
nosy: brian.curtin, neologix, pitrou, tim.golden
priority: low
severity: normal
status: open
title: Use VirtualAlloc to allocate memory arenas
type: resource usage
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23784/va.patch

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