Program very slow to finish
Paul Rubin
phr-n2001d at nightsong.com
Mon Nov 5 20:38:24 EST 2001
Roeland Rengelink <r.b.rigilink at chello.nl> writes:
> An optional object allocator has been included. This allocator is
> optimized for Python objects and should be faster and use less memory
> than the standard system allocator. It is not enabled by default
> because of possible thread safety problems. The allocator is only
> protected by the Python interpreter lock and it is possible that some
> extension modules require a thread safe allocator. The object
> allocator can be enabled by providing the "--with-pymalloc" option to
> configure.
I'm surprised Python doesn't already do something like this. I hope
it can be on the wish list for a future release.
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