[Python-Dev] [ python-Patches-876206 ] scary frame speed hacks

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net>:

> BTW, if a gazillion distinct functions run when starting up a large app, do
> we hang on to the memory for their gazillion distinct frames forever?

If you have a gazillion distinct functions in memory at
once, you've got a gazillion code objects, plus associated
function objects, arg name tuples, etc... Adding a stack
frame to each of these probably won't make a huge difference,
relatively speaking.

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