[Python-Dev] Memory management in the AST parser & compiler

[Brett Cannon]

On 11/16/05, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Thomas Lee wrote:
>
> > Even if it meant we had just one function call - one, safe function call
> > that deallocated all the memory allocated within a function - that we
> > had to put before each and every return, that's better than what we
> > have.
>
> alloca?
>
> (duck)
>

But how widespread is its support (e.g., does Windows have it)?

-Brett