Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 11.05.2015 11:42, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > Pre-allocating a block has a disadvantage. It is hard to free allocated > block. The program can create a lot of integers, then drop most of them, and > request the memory for other needs, but blocks once allocated for integers > would not freed. This is not trivial design decision and should be discussed > on Python-Dev and accepted by BDFL.
True, but if it's only 1-4k RAM, I don't think anyone would mind :-) Python 2 is doing exactly that with 1k RAM for the integer free list. I think it was one of the first free lists ever added to Python, so done in a time when RAM was expensive ;-). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24138> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
