[Python-Dev] Mixing memory management APIs

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
> > >>I've checked in a patch for the UTF-8 codec problem. Could you
> > >>try Purify against the CVS version ?
> > >>
> > >
> > > with-pymalloc or without or both?
> >
> >
> > Both if possible -- the leakage showed up with pymalloc AFAIR :-)
> 
> I thought we were chasing memory stomping, not leaking, this time
> around...

Both, I guess: pymalloc doesn't behave well with overallocation
and codecs use this technique a lot. I reduced the overallocation 
in the UTF-8 encoder down from 3*size to 2*size which should
cover the most common cases better than before.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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