STINNER Victor added the comment: Python uses an allocator called "pymalloc". For allocations smaller than 512 bytes, it uses arenas of 256 KB. If you allocate many small objects and later release most of them (but not all!), the memory is fragmented. For allocations larger than 512 bytes, Python falls back to malloc/free.
It was discussed to replace pymalloc with Windows Low Fragmented Heap allocator. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19246> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
