Charles-François Natali added the comment: The heap on Linux is still a linear contiguous *address space*. I agree that MADV_DONTNEED allow's returning committed memory back to the VM subsystem, but it is still using a large virtual memory area. Not everyone runs on 64-bit, or can waste address space. Also, not every Unix is Linux.
But it might make sense to use malloc on Linux, maybe only on 64-bit. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
