[Patches] Re: Final request for GC patch

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:45:54PM +0200, Vladimir Marangozov wrote:
> Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> > Object alloction has been changed from macros to functions for
> > some important objects (list, tuple, dict).  This will make
> > Python go slower even with GC disabled.  We will have to profile
> > things and find out what should be inlined.  For now I wanted the
> > patch to be easy to understand.
> 
> What is the rationale behind this change?

Look at _PyObject_New.  In order to link GC objects together
extra memory must be allocated for objects that set
Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GCINFO.  Although this check does not have to be
done a run time I didn't want to clutter my patch with lots of
ifdefs.

Extension modules that set HAVE_GCINFO should always use the
object functions for memory managment.  That way they will work
with both GC enabled and GC disabled Python.

    Neil