Tim Peters wrote: > The PyObject_ memory family is generally faster and more > memory-efficient for small allocations than the PyMem_ memory family. > Lines of source code, and encoding strings, are usually small enough > to exploit that. The "ob" in obmalloc.c doesn't really have anything > to do with objects either. PyMem_SmallMalloc (etc) may have been > better names (although I doubt that ;-)).
However, if they're not exclusively for objects, having "Object" in the name would seem to be highly confusing, perhaps dangerously so. (Person A writes PyObject_Alloc(some_chars), Person B writing the code to free it thinks "What??? That can't be right!" and uses PyMem_Free.) -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
