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Author	vstinner
Recipients	rhettinger, vstinner
Date	2020-01-29.21:40:00
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Message-id	<1580334000.62.0.772281032037.issue39489@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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I looked for "Python COUNT_ALLOCS" on the Internet. This special build seems to be very badly documented on the Internet. Outside Python own documentation, I found almost zero reference to it. IMHO it's basically unused. () bpo-33058: Two years ago (2018), attempt to make COUNT_ALLOCS build ABI compatible with release build. Extract: > > Could tracemalloc help you? > tracemalloc can't distinguish between the usage of gc allocs, normal mallocs, and free list reuse. () Documentation of all Python builds: https://pythonextensionpatterns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debugging/debug_python.html#debug-version-of-python-count-allocs-label

I looked for "Python COUNT_ALLOCS" on the Internet. This special build seems to be very badly documented on the Internet. Outside Python own documentation, I found almost zero reference to it. IMHO it's basically unused.


(*) bpo-33058: Two years ago (2018), attempt to make COUNT_ALLOCS build ABI compatible with release build. Extract:

> > Could tracemalloc help you?
> tracemalloc can't distinguish between the usage of gc allocs, normal mallocs, and free list reuse.


(*) Documentation of all Python builds:

https://pythonextensionpatterns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debugging/debug_python.html#debug-version-of-python-count-allocs-label

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