[Python-Dev] extremely slow exit for program having huge (45G) dict (python 2.5.2)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'd like to suggest here, if you are giving this code a facelift,
> that on Windows you use VirtualAlloc and friends to allocate the
> arenas.  This gives you the most direct access to the VM manager and
> makes sure that a release arena is immediately availible to the rest
> of the system.  It also makes sure that you don't mess with the
> regular heap and fragment it.

While I'd like to see this done myself, I believe it is independent
from the problem at hand. Contributions are welcome.

Regards,
Martin