Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Reminds of some experiments someone did a while ago as part of the GIL removal attempts where the ref count integers are all kept in a separate array. The intent there was to be able to do locking on a single array rather than on individual decref cells.
This would solve the issue with having to jump around in memory to decref all objects, but I'm not sure whether the overall win would be a lot, since deallocation of the memory blocks typically requires accessing the block itself as well (to update the block chain list pointers), unless the memory allocator uses some smart cache local block management as well (I believe that pymalloc does, but could be wrong). In any case, this sounds like a fun experiment for a GSoC student. Perhaps the PSF could donate an AWS EC2 instance with enough RAM to do the experiments. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32846> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
