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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst index 87b8603..27005f9 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst @@ -620,7 +620,8 @@ The pymalloc allocator Python has a *pymalloc* allocator optimized for small objects (smaller or equal to 512 bytes) with a short lifetime. It uses memory mappings called "arenas" -with a fixed size of 256 KiB. It falls back to :c:func:`PyMem_RawMalloc` and +with a fixed size of either 256 KiB on 32-bit platforms or 1 MiB on 64-bit +platforms. It falls back to :c:func:`PyMem_RawMalloc` and :c:func:`PyMem_RawRealloc` for allocations larger than 512 bytes. *pymalloc* is the :ref:`default allocator <default-memory-allocators>` of the |