[issue26249] Change PyMem_Malloc to use pymalloc allocator

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Le 09/03/2016 18:01, STINNER Victor a écrit :
> I don't understand why we should keep a slow allocator if Python has a faster allocator?

Define "slow".  malloc() on Linux should be reasonably fast.

Do you think it's reasonable to risk breaking external libraries just
for a hypothetic "performance improvement"?

Again, why don't you try simply changing internal calls?

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