Antti Haapala added the comment: > Maybe we need an heuristic to release the free arena after N calls to object > allocator functions which don't need this free arena.
That'd be my thought; again I believe that `madvise` could be useful there; now `mmap`/`munmap` I believe is particularly slow because it actually needs to supply 256kbytes of *zeroed* pages. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26601> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com