A couple garbage collector questions
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Apr 8 15:40:12 EDT 2001
Neil Schemenauer <nas at python.ca> writes:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
> > Could I persuade you to try again --with-pymalloc?
>
> I did. It was only slightly faster (1-2 percent maybe). AFAIK,
> glibc uses Doug Lea's malloc which is pretty fast.
So Python without freelists but with Vladimir's pymalloc is
substantially slower than Python with freelists with or without
pymalloc? That's a bit of a shame; I was secretly hoping we could
throw the freelists out if pymalloc was made the default.
Cheers,
M.
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