Python Memory Manager

[Jeff Schwab]

MartinRinehart at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>> The problem here is with a high allocation rate, you have to GC a lot
>> more often, which typically involves copying live data.
> 
> This is last century's issue. Copying data, RAM to RAM, is nearly free
> using the Intel architecture.

What's "the Intel architecture?"  Do you mean the x86_64 architecture 
that was actually developed by AMD, or x86 for x > some number, or do 
you actually mean IA64?

> 
> This short article, http://www.martinrinehart.com/articles/repz.html
> explains why.
> 
> I'd use one int per clock as a rule of thumb for the current copy rate
> in a single-core CPU.