Message 261454 - Python tracker

Message261454

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Yury.Selivanov, alecsandru.patrascu, catalin.manciu, jtaylor, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner, yselivanov
Date	2016-03-09.17:15:44
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Message-id	<1457543744.39.0.562163603752.issue26249@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Define "slow". malloc() on Linux should be reasonably fast. See first messages of this issue for benchmark results. Some specific benchmarks are faster, none is slower. > Do you think it's reasonable to risk breaking external libraries just for a hypothetic "performance improvement"? Yes. It was discussed in the python-dev thread.

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

See first messages of this issue for benchmark results. Some specific benchmarks are faster, none is slower.


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

Yes. It was discussed in the python-dev thread.

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