[Python-Dev] Re: Activating pymalloc

[Tim Peters]

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

[Andrew MacIntyre]
> It works just fine when pymalloc is configured normally (~2% speedup).

When running what?

> The performance hit came when I changed all interpreter memory
> management to pymalloc.... (to deal with a pathological case in the
> parser)

I'm not sure what that means.  Rather than try to explain it (trust me:  it
won't work <wink>), if you post a patch attached to a bug report on
SourceForge, we can see whether the same is true on other boxes.