STINNER Victor added the comment: > Define "slow". malloc() on Linux should be reasonably fast.
See first messages of this issue for benchmark results. Some specific benchmarks are faster, none is slower. > Do you think it's reasonable to risk breaking external libraries just for a hypothetic "performance improvement"? Yes. It was discussed in the python-dev thread. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26249> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
