Le 6 octobre 2011 10:09, Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> a écrit : >> But under certain circumstances (if a large block is requested), the >> allocator uses mmap(), no? > > That's right, if the block requested is bigger than mmap_threshold > (256K by default with glibc, forgetting the sliding window algorithm): > I'm not sure of what percentage of strings/buffers are concerned in a > "typical" program.
Most usages of _PyBytes_Resize() are in compression libraries. 256K payloads are not rare in this area. -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc _______________________________________________ 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
