[issue3526] Customized malloc implementation on SunOS and AIX
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Apr 26 21:21:57 CEST 2011
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> So how about a --with-dlmalloc=path/to/dlmalloc.c?
Can't you just add dlmalloc to LDFLAGS or something? Or would the
default malloc still be selected?
> This is
> similar in how python uses e.g. openssl to provide optional extra
> functionality/performance.
It's not really similar. OpenSSL provides functionality that's not
available through the standard library. Here, we're talking about an
alternative implementation of the standard C routines.
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