Kevin Hunter added the comment:
> Why do you read it into a cStringIO? A cStringIO has the same interface
> as a file, so you could simply operate on the file directly.
In that particular case, because it isn't actually a file. That workflow was
my attempt at simplification to i
Kevin Hunter added the comment:
> Well, first, this would only work for large objects. [...]
> Why do you think you might have such duplication in your workload?
Some of the projects with which I work involve multiple manipulations of large
datasets. Often, we use Python scripts as
Kevin Hunter added the comment:
My first thought is "Why is the reference counter stored with the object
itself?" I imagine there are very good reasons, however, and this is not an
area in which I have much mastery.
Answering the question as best I can: I don't know ho
New submission from Kevin Hunter :
Should Python enable a way for folks to inform the OS of MADV_MERGEABLE memory?
I can't speak for other OSs, but Linux added the ability for processes to
inform the kernel that they have memory that will likely not change for a while
in 2.6.32. This is
