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Author	neologix
Recipients	josh.r, neologix, njs, pitrou, skrah, vstinner
Date	2014-04-16.07:18:37
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In-reply-to	<1397616056.23.0.259994659332.issue21233@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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>> So what is the point of _PyObject_GC_Calloc ? > > It calls calloc(size) instead of malloc(size), calloc() which can be faster than malloc()+memset(), see: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/133985.html It will only make a difference if the allocated region is large enough to be allocated by mmap (so not for 90% of objects).

>> So what is the point of _PyObject_GC_Calloc ?
>
> It calls calloc(size) instead of malloc(size), calloc() which can be faster than malloc()+memset(), see:
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/133985.html

It will only make a difference if the allocated region is large enough
to be allocated by mmap (so not for 90% of objects).

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2014-04-16 07:18:37	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, pitrou, vstinner, njs, skrah, josh.r
2014-04-16 07:18:37	neologix	link	issue21233 messages
2014-04-16 07:18:37	neologix	create