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-1. --with-pymalloc should remain an option; there is still
the heuristics in releasing memory that may people make
uncomfortable. Also, on systems with super-efficient malloc,
you may not want to use pymalloc.

I dislike the name PyMalloc_Malloc; it may be acceptable for
the allocation algorithm itself (although it sounds funny).
However, for the PyObject allocator, something else needs to
be found.

I can't really see the problem with calling it
PyObject_New/_NewVar/_Del. None of these where available in
Python 1.5.2, so I don't think 1.5.2 code could break.