On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:09:19PM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > Setobject code allocates several internal objects on the heap that are > cleaned up by the PySet_Fini function. This is a fine design choice, > but it often makes debugging applications with embedded python more > difficult. > > I propose to eliminate the need for PySet_Fini as follows: > > 1. Make dummy and emptyfrozenset static objects similar to Py_None > 2. Eliminate the free sets reuse scheme. > > The second proposal is probably more controversial, but is there any > real benefit from that scheme when pymalloc is enabled?
These are optimizations and not likely to go away. tuples especially get reused frequently. In the case of tuples you can #define MAXSAVEDTUPLES to zero in a custom python build to disable free-listing. You can submit a patch that #ifdef'd the other free list in a similar way (sets don't currently have the ifdef check, for instance) and hope it gets accepted. I don't see why it wouldn't. PyObject_MALLOC does a good job of reusing small allocations but it can't quite manage the same speed as a free list, especially for things that have some extra setup involved (tuples have a free list for each length). -Jack _______________________________________________ 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
