[Python-Dev] Activating pymalloc

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> I just performed some benchmark of pymalloc, compared to glibc 2.2
> malloc, using xmlproc (a pure-Python XML parser) as the sample
> application. On an artificial input document, the standard
> configuration ran 16.3s; the configuration with pymalloc ran 15s.
> 
> I recommend to enable pymalloc by default; I can commit the necessary
> changes if desired.

AFAIK, pymalloc still has problems with threading, so I unless this
has already been resolved, I don't think it's a good idea to
enable it by default just yet (since threads are enabled per default
too).

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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