[Python-Dev] FW: Program very slow to finish

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
> FYI, a good illustration of why tuning malloc per-platform is a
> bottomless pit.

[Anthony Baxter]
> Is it worth collecting all these different platform specific tweaks
> into a single file?

Not if I have to do it, and I think it's unlikely Python is going to grow
masses of platform-specific malloc-fiddling in any case.  Vladimir wrote
PyMalloc so we could do a good job regardless of platform.