On 2019年6月15日 22:02:35 -0600 Neil Schemenauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2019年06月15日, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > We should evaluate what problem we are trying to solve here, instead > > of staring at micro-benchmark numbers on an idle system. > > I think a change to obmalloc is not going to get accepted unless we > can show it doesn't hurt these micro-benchmarks. To displace the > status quo, it has to give other advantages as well. I don't have > any agenda or "problem to solve". After Tim made a PR to allow > obmalloc to use larger pools, I thought it would be interesting to > see if a arena mapping scheme based on radix trees should be > performance competitive. I'm not proposing any changes to CPython > at this point. I'm sharing the results of an experiment. I thought > it was interesting. I guess you don't.
I'm not saying it's not interesting. I'm just saying that you can't validate memory allocator changes only on short-running micro-benchmarks with well-behaved allocation patterns. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KD32F5SPZDEOOJ5CW2254U5FDNFGWMNL/