On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:03:03 -0500 Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > But I don't know what you mean by "access memory in random order to > iterate over known objects". obmalloc never needs to iterate over > known objects - indeed, it contains no code capable of doing that.. > Our cyclic gc does, but that's independent of obmalloc.
It's not. Cyclic GC needs its own linked lists *because* the allocator doesn't allow it to iterate over allocated objects. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/YZIG3RZKM4XSTM3PYPDAPG3UHOB5QKM4/