NetWare port of Python - not so hot pystone

[Skip Montanaro]

    Brad> Still, these numbers are rather crummy. What kinds of things in a
    Brad> CLIB could have a large impact on Python?

    Brad> 1. memory allocation routines
    Brad> 2. string manipulation
    Brad> 3. <other>???

    Brad> I suspect that the memory allocation functions in clib aren't very
    Brad> good, and could be replaced with something better. Does anyone
    Brad> know of a free source of a very good dynamic memory allocator?

Look around the Starship or c.l.py archives for pymalloc.  Also, the GNU
malloc is generally pretty good.

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