[issue38373] List overallocation strategy

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters <tim at python.org> added the comment:

Don't know.  Define "the problem" ;-)  As soon as the allocation is over 512 bytes (64 pointers), it's punted to the system malloc family.  Before then, do a relative handful of relatively small memcpy's really matter?

pymalloc is faster than system mallocs, and probably uses space more efficiently.  There are no pure wins here :-)

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