Program very slow to finish

[Paul Rubin]

Roeland Rengelink <r.b.rigilink at chello.nl> writes:
> An optional object allocator has been included.  This allocator is
> optimized for Python objects and should be faster and use less memory
> than the standard system allocator.  It is not enabled by default
> because of possible thread safety problems.  The allocator is only
> protected by the Python interpreter lock and it is possible that some
> extension modules require a thread safe allocator.  The object
> allocator can be enabled by providing the "--with-pymalloc" option to
> configure.

I'm surprised Python doesn't already do something like this.  I hope
it can be on the wish list for a future release.