On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:06 AM Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > I experimented with this at the EuroPython sprints in Berlin years ago. I > was sitting next to MvL, who had an interesting observation about it.
Classic MvL! :) > He suggested(*) all the constants unmarshalled as part of loading a module > should be "immortal", and if we could rejigger how we allocated them to store > them in their own memory pages, that would dovetail nicely with COW > semantics, cutting down on the memory use of preforked server processes. Cool idea. I may mention it in the PEP as a possibility. Thanks! -eric _______________________________________________ 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/2PRODXEVNO53YYFRL6JUWZQF77WOYS4C/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
