Amanjit> So on linux its a lot better than that, because - I think - Amanjit> ptmalloc is used which is based on dmalloc which is efficient Amanjit> for those small size allocs (which malloc() and free() were Amanjit> never designed for).
And which for Python has been further optimized in obmalloc. Again, Python wins. ;-) Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list