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Author pitrou
Recipients brian.curtin, neologix, pitrou, tim.golden
Date 2011-11-26.13:12:41
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Similar to issue #11849, this patch proposes to use VirtualAlloc/VirtualFree to allocate the Python allocator's memory arenas (rather than malloc() / free()). It might help release more memory if there is some fragmentation, although I don't know how Microsoft's malloc() works.
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2011-11-26 13:12:42pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, tim.golden, brian.curtin, neologix
2011-11-26 13:12:42pitrousetmessageid: <1322313162.87.0.914810161445.issue13483@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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