[issue14435] Remove special block allocation from floatobject.c

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> added the comment:

Yes, it is supposed to, but no one is actually looking at that value.  It was used in debugging information during PyFloat_Fini() which is no longer relevant if this block information is removed.

Sure, 100 or 10 does not matter, I see 100 being used in some other freelists.

Also, I wasn't able to see any negative benefits of this using pybench.

Here's a thought:  I think using the linked list approach using Py_TYPE() is rather neat.  Other freelists are mostly implemented using static arrays of pointers.  Any thoughts on this?  We could unify the approach taken.

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