l = range(int(1E9))

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op Friday 1 May 2015 13:15 CEST schreef Thomas Lahn:

> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> By the way: I also see python3.4 and python3.4m. Any idea where the
>> m stands for?
>
> I googled for “python3.4m” and found as second result

Eh, I could/should have done that myself. :-(
Nice that you do not burn me. :-D


> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16675865/difference-between-python3-and-python3m-executibles>
>
> In a nutshell: python3.4m was built with configure option
> “--with-pymalloc” which causes the resulting implementation to use
> “Pymalloc, a specialized object allocator written by Vladimir
> Marangozov, […] a feature added to Python 2.1. Pymalloc is intended
> to be faster than the system malloc() and to have less memory
> overhead for allocation patterns typical of Python programs. The
> allocator uses C's malloc() function to get large pools of memory
> and then fulfills smaller memory requests from these pools.”
>
> See also: <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/32402> (first
> result)

Something to look in later. Looks interesting, but have a ‘few’ things
that are more important.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof