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authorAntoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr>2017-07-23 11:05:26 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-07-23 11:05:26 (GMT)
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bpo-30919: shared memory allocation performance regression in multiprocessing (#2708)
* Fix #30919: shared memory allocation performance regression in multiprocessing * Change strategy for Arena directory choice * Add blurb
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+Fix shared memory performance regression in multiprocessing in 3.x.
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+Shared memory used anonymous memory mappings in 2.x, while 3.x mmaps actual
+files. Try to be careful to do as little disk I/O as possible.