Charles-François Natali added the comment: >> So what is the point of _PyObject_GC_Calloc ? > > It calls calloc(size) instead of malloc(size), calloc() which can be faster > than malloc()+memset(), see: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/133985.html
It will only make a difference if the allocated region is large enough to be allocated by mmap (so not for 90% of objects). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21233> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com