[Python-Dev] Re: Activating pymalloc

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Tim Peters wrote:

> Lots of people have reported modest speedups in non-pathological
> programs too (except on OS/2 EMX, or something like that).

It works just fine when pymalloc is configured normally (~2% speedup).
The performance hit came when I changed all interpreter memory management
to pymalloc.... (to deal with a pathological case in the parser)

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