Re: Python performance

On Tuesday 12 June 2001 10:18, James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote:
> Apparently the latest versions of Python include compile time options to
> make the interpreter use an internal, faster, memory allocator. This
> avoids the bottleneck often encountered in calling malloc() all the time,
> since Python code is constantly creating and destroying structures.
>
> Does anyone know whether or not the Familiar python distribution is
> compiled with this flag?
>
> Oh, and can the pygtk bits be removed from the python package, since
> they're already in the pygtk package? (Or is there a reason they're in
> both?)
>
> Cheers,
>
> James "Wez" Weatherall

The python in familiar looks mostly to still be my old build. It does not
include that option.

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