[Python-Dev] The untuned tunable parameter ARENA_SIZE
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Jun 3 06:07:06 EDT 2017
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:31:19 -0700
Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>
> Anyway, I'm not super excited by the prospect of using obmalloc for
> larger objects. There's an inverse relation between the size of
> allocation and the frequency of allocation. In Python there are lots of
> tiny allocations, but fewer and fewer as the size increases. (A
> similarly-shaped graph to what retailers call the "long tail".) By no
> small coincidence, obmalloc is great at small objects, which is where we
> needed the help most. Let's leave it at that.
+1 to that and nice explanation.
> A more fruitful endeavor might be to try one of these fancy new
> third-party allocators in CPython, e.g. tcmalloc, jemalloc. Try each
> with both obmalloc turned on and turned off, and see what happens to
> performance and memory usage. (I'd try it myself, but I'm already so
> far behind on watching funny cat videos.)
We should lobby for a ban on funny cat videos so that you spend more
time on CPython.
Regards
Antoine.
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