Chad Netzer added the comment:
For bpo-43574, my initial plan was to change list_resize() so that it wouldn't
overallocate empty lists that were resized to be bigger, thus restoring the
overallocation behavior for list-literals to be like that of earlier Python
releases.
However
Change by Chad Netzer :
--
keywords: +patch
pull_requests: +23712
stage: -> patch review
pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24954
___
Python tracker
<https://bugs.python.org/issu
New submission from Chad Netzer :
In Python v3.9+ there was a regression in the amount of used memory for
list-literals, due to switching to using list_extend() to allocate memory for
the new list to accomodate the literal elements.
Example, in Python v3.8.x (and before):
```
$ python38
Python
