[issue1943] improved allocation of PyUnicode objects

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Since pymalloc is being used to manage such objects, there's
> a lot of room for improvements, since the allocation scheme
> is under out control. E.g. we could have pymalloc allocate
> larger pools for PyUnicodeObjects.

I'm not sure what "larger pools for PyUnicodeObjects" means. pymalloc
doesn't have separate pools per object type, only per object size.
OTOH, we could grow the size limit under which pymalloc is used,
especially on 64-bit systems.

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