Question regarding the local function object

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Mar 16 05:48:57 EDT 2019


Terry Reedy wrote:
> I believe 
> that CPython function objects must currently all have the same size or 
> at least the same max size and conclude that CPython currently allocates 
> them from a block of memory that is some multiple of that size.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a free list for function objects,
which would make it even more likely that you would observe this
kind of re-use.

-- 
Greg



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