Re: [Python-Dev] wrt the beta deadline and freelist management

2008-06-07 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Andrew MacIntyre < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are 2 disparate approaches to clearing/compacting free lists for > basic types: > - APIs of the form Py_ClearFreeList() called from gc.collect() > [class, frame, method, tuple & unicode types]; > - APIs of the fo

[Python-Dev] wrt the beta deadline and freelist management

2008-06-04 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
There are 2 disparate approaches to clearing/compacting free lists for basic types: - APIs of the form Py_ClearFreeList() called from gc.collect() [class, frame, method, tuple & unicode types]; - APIs of the form Py_CompactFreeList() called from sys._compact_freelists() [int & float types];