[Python-Dev] PyCon: please review miy pending patches

Thu Mar 20 13:36:33 CET 2008

Christian Heimes wrote:
> Memory management of ints, floats and longs
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2039
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2013

wrt 2039 - I would like to see the free list compaction called from 
gc.collect() rather than a function in sys... something you suggested.
As I noted in the comments to 2039, in the presence of pymalloc there is
almost no value to floats having a freelist as far as I can test - other 
than in microbenchmarks.
I see from a comment in 2013 that you were testing that patch with a 
debug build, which skews the timings. If your performance evaluation of 
2039 was also done with a debug build, I suggest you try it with a 
non-debug build (which is what I used for all my testing).
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