On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM, eryksun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > The old float freelist was the same design as the one for 2.x int > (PyInt, not PyLong), which grows without bound. The design also > allocates objects in 1 KiB blocks (approx. size). glibc's malloc will > use the heap for a block that's this small. >
Thanks Eryksun, pretty sure that's more than I could have known to ask about garbage collection. But who knows where it will come in handy? -- Keith
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