On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote:
> On 06/01/2017 01:41 AM, Larry Hastings wrote: > > On 06/01/2017 01:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > malloc() you said? Arenas are allocated using mmap() nowadays, right? > > malloc() and free(). See _PyObject_ArenaMalloc (etc) in > Objects/obmalloc.c. > > > Oh, sorry, I forgot how to read. If ARENAS_USE_MMAP is on it uses > mmap(). I can't figure out when or how MAP_ANONYMOUS gets set, > MAP_ANONYMOUS is set by sys/mman.h (where the system supports it), just like the other MAP_* defines. > but if I step into the _PyObject_Arena.alloc() it indeed calls > _PyObject_ArenaMmap() which uses mmap(). So, huzzah!, we use mmap() to > allocate our enormous 256kb arenas. > > > */arry* > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > thomas%40python.org > > -- Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org> Hi! I'm an email virus! Think twice before sending your email to help me spread!
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