STINNER Victor added the comment: 2014-04-27 10:30 GMT+02:00 Charles-François Natali <[email protected]>: >> I read again some remarks about alignement, it was suggested to provide >> allocators providing an address aligned to a requested alignement. This >> topic was already discussed in #18835. > > The alignement issue is really orthogonal to the calloc one, so IMO > this shouldn't be discussed here (and FWIW I don't think we should > expose those: alignement only matters either for concurrency or SIMD > instructions, and I don't think we should try to standardize this kind > of API, it's way to special-purpose (then we'd have to think about > huge pages, etc...). Whereas calloc is a simple and immediately useful > addition, not only for Numpy but also CPython).
This issue was opened to be able to use tracemalloc on numpy. I would like to make sure that calloc is enough for numpy. I would prefer to change the malloc API only once. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21233> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
