[Python-Dev] eval() slowdown in 2.2 on MacOS X?

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Did she try Skip's suggestion to try pymalloc?  

    amk> She hasn't compiled it herself yet, but that's the first thing I'll
    amk> try.

I did try that when the problem was first raised.  I just tried it again.
It did have a positive effect:

w/ threads and w/o pymalloc:

    user     system    elapsed     CPU
    7.64     0.72      0:09.73     85%
    7.86     0.45      0:08.66     95%
    7.66     0.66      0:08.32     99%

w/o threads and w/ pymalloc:

    user     system    elapsed     CPU
    5.44     0.58      0:06.85     87%
    5.57     0.46      0:06.02    100%
    5.57     0.45      0:06.02     99%

The above was with my memory usage trimmed about as far down as I could get
it (turned off X, for example).  My apologies that both sets of numbers
don't have threads disabled.  It's just what I happened to have laying
around on the disk.

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