A couple garbage collector questions

[Neil Schemenauer]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> So Python without freelists but with Vladimir's pymalloc is
> substantially slower than Python with freelists with or without
> pymalloc?  That's a bit of a shame; I was secretly hoping we could
> throw the freelists out if pymalloc was made the default.

Don't give up hope.  I accidently disabled the small integer
cache as well.  That probably accounts for most of the slowdown.

  Neil