The REALLY bad thing about Python lists ..

[William Tanksley]

On Mon, 15 May 2000 15:02:18 -0500, Russell Turpin wrote:
>Russell Turpin wrote:
>>   Should Python lists be as fast on other platforms
>>   as they are on Linux, where good OS memory
>>   management turned the second strategy into the
>>   first?

>Obviously, that should be "good malloc() memory 
>management." The question stands: does GNU m/re-
>alloc() use buddy list allocation?

AFAIK, no.  That's usually reserved for the kernal and realtime tasks;
it's fast, but VERY VERY wasteful.

>Russell

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-William "Billy" Tanksley