Le 15/01/2021 à 13:08, Julien Danjou a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 15 2021, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> Also note that PyObject_Malloc() may also be used to allocate >> non-objects, for example a bytearray's payload, IIRC. > > Interesting. What's the rational for not using PyMem_Malloc() in such > cases?
I think PyMem_Malloc() just redirects to PyObject_Malloc() nowadays. Historically though, PyMem_Malloc() was a thin wrapper around the system malloc(), and it could therefore be slower than PyObject_Malloc() for small payloads. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/6OH6N6YAGL6MRFJVOGLV3UYY5JCDRQKN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
