Andrew Dalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: You're right. I mistook the string implementation for the list one which does keep a preallocated section in case of growth. Strings of course don't grow so there's no need for that.
I tracked the memory allocation all the way down to obmalloc.c:PyObject_Realloc . The call goes to realloc(p, nbytes) which is a C lib call. It appears that the memory space is not reallocated. That was enough to be able to find the python-dev thread "Darwin's realloc(...) implementation never shrinks allocations" from Jan. 2005, Bob Ippolito's post "realloc.. doesn’t?" (http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/01/01/realloc-doesnt/ ) and Issue1092502 . Mind you, I also get the problem on FreeBSD 2.6 so it isn't Darwin specific. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3531> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
