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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-05-13 21:00:42 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-05-13 21:00:42 (GMT)
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Faster floating point allocator, same idea as the int allocator.
By Aaron Watters.
Diffstat (limited to 'Objects/floatobject.c')
-rw-r--r--Objects/floatobject.c36
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/floatobject.c b/Objects/floatobject.c
index d66bf85..7f7f507 100644
--- a/Objects/floatobject.c
+++ b/Objects/floatobject.c
@@ -83,6 +83,25 @@ extern double fmod Py_PROTO((double, double));
extern double pow Py_PROTO((double, double));
#endif
+/* Special free list -- see comments for same code in intobject.c. */
+static PyFloatObject *free_list = NULL;
+#define BLOCK_SIZE 1000 /* 1K less typical malloc overhead */
+#define N_FLOATOBJECTS (BLOCK_SIZE / sizeof(PyFloatObject))
+
+static PyFloatObject *
+fill_free_list()
+{
+ PyFloatObject *p, *q;
+ p = PyMem_NEW(PyFloatObject, N_FLOATOBJECTS);
+ if (p == NULL)
+ return (PyFloatObject *)PyErr_NoMemory();
+ q = p + N_FLOATOBJECTS;
+ while (--q > p)
+ *(PyFloatObject **)q = q-1;
+ *(PyFloatObject **)q = NULL;
+ return p + N_FLOATOBJECTS - 1;
+}
+
PyObject *
#ifdef __SC__
PyFloat_FromDouble(double fval)
@@ -91,11 +110,13 @@ PyFloat_FromDouble(fval)
double fval;
#endif
{
- /* For efficiency, this code is copied from newobject() */
- register PyFloatObject *op =
- (PyFloatObject *) malloc(sizeof(PyFloatObject));
- if (op == NULL)
- return PyErr_NoMemory();
+ register PyFloatObject *op;
+ if (free_list == NULL) {
+ if ((free_list = fill_free_list()) == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ op = free_list;
+ free_list = *(PyFloatObject **)free_list;
op->ob_type = &PyFloat_Type;
op->ob_fval = fval;
_Py_NewReference(op);
@@ -104,9 +125,10 @@ PyFloat_FromDouble(fval)
static void
float_dealloc(op)
- PyObject *op;
+ PyFloatObject *op;
{
- PyMem_DEL(op);
+ *(PyFloatObject **)op = free_list;
+ free_list = op;
}
double