"High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing?
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bryanjugglercryptographer at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 6 13:10:46 EDT 2014
dieter wrote:
> As you see from the description, memory compaction presents a heavy burden
> for all extension writers.
Particularly because many CPython extensions are actually interfaces to pre-existing libraries. To leverage the system's facilities CPython has to follow the system's conventions, which memory compaction would break.
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