[NCLUG] RE: [Python-Dev] Judy for replacing internal dictionaries?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 10:46:18PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> This includes platforms with a modern glibc, where it seems all too easy to
> provoke the system *free()* into seemingly quadratic-time behavior when
> freeing gazillions of small blocks.

yes, glibc includes an old version of doug lea's malloc which isn't as
good as more recent versions.  Mozilla also did some benchmarks with
pretty graphs & so on.  dlmalloc was the best by a faily substantial
margin.

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