I implemented the function sys._compact_freelists() and C API functions PyInt_/PyFloat_CompactFreeList() to compact the pre-allocated blocks of ints and floats. They allow the user to reduce the memory usage of a Python process that deals with lots of numbers.
The patch also renames sys._cleartypecache to sys._clear_type_cache

to the main mailbox, copy it to secondary mailbox instances.

Add PyFrozenSet_Check(), which was not needed before; The list of Py*Set_Check* macros seems to be complete now.

Add missing NEWS entries about all this.

Use vsbuild instead of devenv in build.bat and _bsddb.vcproj

r293 | jcea | 2008-01-31 01:08:19 -0800 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

Solved memory leak when using cursors with
databases without environment.

what we should call [this wrapper only available on OS/2].

Backport candidate to 2.5.

searches as to how they were listed in the environment variable.

test_socketserver failures on several platforms.

tests which are deemed more important issues, the second those which are
known to have difficult to solve problems and are generally expected to
leak.  Hopefully this doesn't break the script...

Update the leaky tests (ie, ignore these tests if they report leaks).  This version has been running for a while.

with all other test files). Written for GHOP by Benjamin Peterson.

Written for GHOP by Martin Matejek.