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Author	vstinner
Recipients	rhettinger, vstinner
Date	2020年01月29日.21:40:00
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I looked for "Python COUNT_ALLOCS" on the Internet. This special build seems to be very badly documented on the Internet. Outside Python own documentation, I found almost zero reference to it. IMHO it's basically unused. () bpo-33058: Two years ago (2018), attempt to make COUNT_ALLOCS build ABI compatible with release build. Extract: > > Could tracemalloc help you? > tracemalloc can't distinguish between the usage of gc allocs, normal mallocs, and free list reuse. () Documentation of all Python builds: https://pythonextensionpatterns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debugging/debug_python.html#debug-version-of-python-count-allocs-label

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I looked for "Python COUNT_ALLOCS" on the Internet. This special build seems to be very badly documented on the Internet. Outside Python own documentation, I found almost zero reference to it. IMHO it's basically unused.
(*) bpo-33058: Two years ago (2018), attempt to make COUNT_ALLOCS build ABI compatible with release build. Extract:
> > Could tracemalloc help you?
> tracemalloc can't distinguish between the usage of gc allocs, normal mallocs, and free list reuse.
(*) Documentation of all Python builds:
https://pythonextensionpatterns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debugging/debug_python.html#debug-version-of-python-count-allocs-label

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