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Author	vstinner
Recipients	josh.r, neologix, njs, pitrou, skrah, vstinner
Date	2014-04-16.02:40:55
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Message-id	<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 _PyObject_GC_Calloc() is used by PyType_GenericAlloc(). If I understand directly, it is the default allocator to allocate Python 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

_PyObject_GC_Calloc() is used by PyType_GenericAlloc(). If I understand directly, it is the default allocator to allocate Python objects.

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