[Python-Dev] update on memory leaks in 2.2

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:33:06 -0500


Tim Peters writes:
 > -0.  When we turn on pymalloc in 2.3, blocks will get allocated by magic,
 > and more space-efficiently than you're going to do by hand (it bites one
 > malloc overhead per 256KB).  pymalloc will likely be a little slower than a

  That's good enough for me!  I'll look forward to ripping the free
list out completely.


  -Fred

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