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Author amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients ajaksu2, amaury.forgeotdarc, collinwinter, ezio.melotti, jafo, lemburg, orivej, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2009-05-25.09:32:03
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Message-id <1243243925.53.0.354867952078.issue1943@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> The OS malloc() is only called...
I know this. But pymalloc has its own overhead, and cache locality will
certainly be better if string data is close to the string length.

The goal is to improve the current usage of strings, and not rely on
hypothetical enhancements to the generic pymalloc.
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Date User Action Args
2009-05-25 09:32:06amaury.forgeotdarcsetrecipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, lemburg, collinwinter, jafo, pitrou, vstinner, ajaksu2, orivej, ezio.melotti
2009-05-25 09:32:05amaury.forgeotdarcsetmessageid: <1243243925.53.0.354867952078.issue1943@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-05-25 09:32:04amaury.forgeotdarclinkissue1943 messages
2009-05-25 09:32:03amaury.forgeotdarccreate