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Sun Apr 8 15:40:12 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/107728.html

Neil Schemenauer <nas at python.ca> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
> > Could I persuade you to try again --with-pymalloc?
> 
> I did.  It was only slightly faster (1-2 percent maybe).  AFAIK,
> glibc uses Doug Lea's malloc which is pretty fast.

So Python without freelists but with Vladimir's pymalloc is
substantially slower than Python with freelists with or without
pymalloc?  That's a bit of a shame; I was secretly hoping we could
throw the freelists out if pymalloc was made the default.

Cheers,
M.

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A couple garbage collector questions