STINNER Victor added the comment: Without the patch, 1 << (2**29) allocates 69.9 MB. With the patch, 1 << (2**29) allocates 0.1 MB (104 KB).
Without the patch, $ ./python Python 3.5.0a0 (default:5b0fda8f5718, May 2 2014, 22:47:06) [GCC 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7)] on linux >>> import os >>> os.system("grep RSS /proc/%s/status" % os.getpid()) VmRSS: 6164 kB >>> x=1 << (2**29) >>> os.system("grep RSS /proc/%s/status" % os.getpid()) VmRSS: 76064 kB With the patch: haypo@selma$ ./python Python 3.5.0a0 (default:5b0fda8f5718+, May 2 2014, 22:55:47) [GCC 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.system("grep RSS /proc/%s/status" % os.getpid()) VmRSS: 5864 kB >>> x=1 << (2**29) >>> os.system("grep RSS /proc/%s/status" % os.getpid()) VmRSS: 5968 kB ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21419> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com