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| author | Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca> | 2001-02-27 04:45:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca> | 2001-02-27 04:45:05 (GMT) |
| commit | a35c688055c72e9442f6a82c3ec0e09654077975 (patch) | |
| tree | 081386e63e64467a01558567750b371baa527f8e /Misc | |
| parent | 29906eef3a56c43a4cd68a8706c75844b2384e59 (diff) | |
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Add Vladimir Marangozov's object allocator. It is disabled by default. This
closes SF patch #401229.
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@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 507? Core language, builtins, and interpreter +- 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. + Standard library - pyexpat now detects the expat version if expat.h defines it. A |