Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > For the same reason that extension modules can choose between > PyMem_Malloc and plain malloc (or whatever else). Python has never > forced it's malloc on extension modules why should it now?
We're talking about a platform-specific feature request due to the fact that dlmalloc is (supposedly) superior to AIX malloc(). If it's superior than I don't see any *practical* reason not to want to use it for other purposes than allocating Python objects. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3526> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
