[issue3526] Customized malloc implementation on SunOS and AIX

Martin v. Löwis report at bugs.python.org
Sun Sep 7 21:45:13 CEST 2008


Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I will try to do that patch in coming weeks (obmalloc mostly allocates
> some 256KB arenas so it should nearly always use mmap).

Exactly so. If you can, please also consider supporting Windows, in the
same way.

Anything in obmalloc that is not arena space should continue to come
from malloc, I believe.

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