C API: Change immutable objects? :-o

[Skip Montanaro]

    Michael> Are you running a version of Python compiled with pymalloc?
    Michael> Because I believe that fairly recent changes have wrought
    Michael> significant gains in performance when working with large
    Michael> numbers of small objects.

If I read the recent thread on python-dev correctly, there is about a 25%
improvement in performance of current CVS over 2.2.1, largely due to
pymalloc.

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