[Python-Dev] list.append optimization Was: collections module
Tim Peters
tim.one at comcast.net
Tue Jan 13 14:24:08 EST 2004
[John Williams]
> Tim's optimization seems to help even more on Linux than Windows. On
> my box each iteration of the test program takes 0.80s without the
> patch and 0.27 with it.
Wow! That's better than I had hoped for. I'll note one subtlety: the call
to realloc() probably endures mutex locking overhead to keep it threadsafe,
even if the realloc() is (in the end) a nop. It certainly does under
Microsoft's realloc(), but the native locking gimmicks on Windows are very
fast (Windows loves threads).
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