Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Yes, I was probably not clear: > When --with-dlmalloc is activated, PyMem_MALLOC/PyMem_Malloc will call > dlmalloc, PyMem_REALLOC/PyMem_Realloc will call dlrealloc and > PyMem_FREE/PyMem_Free will call dlfree. > > While calls to malloc/free/realloc will use the platform implementation.
I'm not sure why you would want that. If dlmalloc is clearly superior, why not use it for all allocations inside the application (not only Python ones)? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3526> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
