[Python-Dev] Activating pymalloc

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> I just performed some benchmark of pymalloc, compared to glibc 2.2
> malloc, using xmlproc (a pure-Python XML parser) as the sample
> application. On an artificial input document, the standard
> configuration ran 16.3s; the configuration with pymalloc ran 15s.

I've also been playing with this on FreeBSD and OS/2, using PyBench and
others, with gains of about 3%.

> I recommend to enable pymalloc by default; I can commit the necessary
> changes if desired.

+1

Also interesting to note that current CVS seems to be doing ~7-8% better
than 2.2 even without pymalloc, at least on those benchmarks I've compared
both with (pystone, PyBench.

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