[Python-Dev] pymalloc killer

[Martin v. Loewis]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> All I can do is encourage you to keep trying.  I find it quite
> encouraging that you found a constant-time test for non-arena memory
> at all.  Making it thread-safe should only add a tiny constant time.

Are we discussing using PyMalloc even when not holding the GIL? That
can't possibly work: pymalloc maintains linked lists of free memory;
if two allocate or deallocate objects in the same pool simultaneously,
bad things will happen.

Regards,
Martin