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Author	neologix
Recipients	Ramchandra Apte, mark.dickinson, neologix, phillies, pitrou
Date	2011-12-08.18:57:43
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Message-id	<1323370664.73.0.510885106837.issue13555@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> my computer has 122GB free RAM 122, or 1.22? > Well, replace cPickle by pickle and it works. cPickle makes some direct call to malloc()/realloc()/free(), contrarily to pickle which uses pymalloc. This could lead to heap fragmentation. What does the following return ? $ /usr/bin/time -v python test.py

> my computer has 122GB free RAM

122, or 1.22?

> Well, replace cPickle by pickle and it works.

cPickle makes some direct call to malloc()/realloc()/free(), contrarily to pickle which uses pymalloc. This could lead to heap fragmentation.

What does the following return ?
$ /usr/bin/time -v python test.py

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-12-08 18:57:44	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, mark.dickinson, pitrou, Ramchandra Apte, phillies
2011-12-08 18:57:44	neologix	set	messageid: <1323370664.73.0.510885106837.issue13555@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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