Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment: > The OS malloc() is only called... I know this. But pymalloc has its own overhead, and cache locality will certainly be better if string data is close to the string length.
The goal is to improve the current usage of strings, and not rely on hypothetical enhancements to the generic pymalloc. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1943> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
