Neal Norwitz wrote: > It's not just size. Architectures may require data aligned on 4, 8, > or 16 addresses for optimal performance depending on data type. IIRC, > malloc aligns by 8 (not sure if that was a particular arch or very > common). I don't know if pymalloc handles alignment.
Yes, pymalloc takes care of alignment. From Object/obmalloc.c: Small requests are grouped in size classes spaced 8 bytes apart, due to the required valid alignment of the returned address. _______________________________________________ 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
