On 12/7/05, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> As Fredrik pointed out a while back, the PyObject approach doesn't > >> *have* to involve manual decref operations - PyObject's come with a > >> ready made arena structure, in the form of PyList. > > > > That doesn't really work: PyList_Append (which you would have to use) > > duplicates the reference, so you would still have to decref it > > explicitly. > > Hmm - perhaps we should have a set of Arena functions/macros e.g. PyArena_Add > - works like PyList_Append, but doesn't duplicate the reference (or > immediately decrefs it). > > I'm sure there are other parts of the code base that would benefit from this.
There is such a function on the ast-arena branch. The current implementation uses a linked list, so it consumes more memory than using a PyList. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
