Kaydet (Commit) bf140147 authored tarafından Andrew M. Kuchling's avatar Andrew M. Kuchling

Document the object allocator

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There are also corresponding changes of interest to C programmers;
there's a new slot \code{tp_richcmp} in type objects and an API for
performing a given rich comparison. I won't cover the C API here, but
will refer you to PEP 207, or the documentation for Python's C API,
for the full list of related functions.
will refer you to PEP 207, or to 2.1's C API documentation, for the
full list of related functions.
\begin{seealso}
......@@ -605,6 +605,16 @@ be underestimates. Some of the more notable changes are:
\begin{itemize}
\item A specialized object allocator is now optionally available, that
should be faster than the system \function{malloc()} and have less
memory overhead. The allocator uses C's \function{malloc()} function
to get large pools of memory, and then fulfills smaller memory
requests from these pools. It can be enabled by providing the
"--with-pymalloc" option to the \filename{configure} script; see
\filename{Objects/obmalloc.c} for the implementation details.
Contributed by Vladimir Marangozov.
\item The speed of line-oriented file I/O has been improved because
people often complain about its lack of speed, and because it's often
been used as a na\"ive benchmark. The \method{readline()} method of
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