A couple garbage collector questions

[Michael Hudson]

Neil Schemenauer <nas at python.ca> writes:

> I wrote:
> > I also had to disable the integer, float, and method object
> > freelists.
> 
> To be fair I re-ran pystone with the freelists disabled for the
> referencing counting interpreter (source from CVS):
> 
>     Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 1.38
>     This machine benchmarks at 7246.38 pystones/second

Could I persuade you to try again --with-pymalloc?

Cheers,
M.

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