STINNER Victor added the comment: 2014-04-16 3:18 GMT-04:00 Charles-François Natali <rep...@bugs.python.org>: >> It calls calloc(size) instead of malloc(size), calloc() which can be faster >> than malloc()+memset(), see: >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/133985.html > > It will only make a difference if the allocated region is large enough > to be allocated by mmap (so not for 90% of objects).
Even if there are only 10% of cases where it may be faster, I think that it's interesting to use calloc() to allocate Python objects. You may create large Python objects ;-) I didn't check which objects use (indirectly) _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21233> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
