Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I cannot quite see why the problem is serious: even though the memory is not returned to the system, it will be swapped out to the swap file, so it doesn't consume any real memory (just swap space).
I don't think Python should integrate a separate malloc implementation. Instead, Python's own memory allocate (obmalloc) should be changed to directly use the virtual memory interfaces of the operating system (i.e. mmap), bypassing the malloc of the C library. So I'm -1 on this patch. ---------- nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3526> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
