diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_dtoa.h b/Include/internal/pycore_dtoa.h
index 3faf8cf6b2e..0f61e751408 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_dtoa.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_dtoa.h
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef PY_NO_SHORT_FLOAT_REPR
+#ifndef Py_INTERNAL_DTOA_H
+#define Py_INTERNAL_DTOA_H
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif
@@ -17,7 +19,21 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_dg_freedtoa(char *s);
 PyAPI_FUNC(double) _Py_dg_stdnan(int sign);
 PyAPI_FUNC(double) _Py_dg_infinity(int sign);
 
+#define _PyDtoa_Kmax 7
+
+typedef uint32_t _PyDtoa_ULong;
+typedef int32_t _PyDtoa_Long;
+typedef uint64_t _PyDtoa_ULLong;
+
+struct
+_PyDtoa_Bigint {
+    struct _PyDtoa_Bigint *next;
+    int k, maxwds, sign, wds;
+    _PyDtoa_ULong x[1];
+};
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
+#endif /* !Py_INTERNAL_DTOA_H */
 #endif   /* !PY_NO_SHORT_FLOAT_REPR */
diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_interp.h b/Include/internal/pycore_interp.h
index 477cbf0c245..ea770daedd8 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_interp.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_interp.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "pycore_gil.h"           // struct _gil_runtime_state
 #include "pycore_gc.h"            // struct _gc_runtime_state
 #include "pycore_warnings.h"      // struct _warnings_runtime_state
+#include "pycore_dtoa.h"
 
 struct _pending_calls {
     PyThread_type_lock lock;
@@ -321,6 +322,9 @@ struct _is {
 
     struct ast_state ast;
     struct type_cache type_cache;
+#ifndef PY_NO_SHORT_FLOAT_REPR
+    struct _PyDtoa_Bigint *dtoa_freelist[_PyDtoa_Kmax + 1];
+#endif
 };
 
 extern void _PyInterpreterState_ClearModules(PyInterpreterState *interp);
diff --git a/Python/dtoa.c b/Python/dtoa.c
index e629b296426..c7002e5d86d 100644
--- a/Python/dtoa.c
+++ b/Python/dtoa.c
@@ -119,6 +119,16 @@
 
 #include "Python.h"
 #include "pycore_dtoa.h"
+#include "pycore_interp.h"
+#include "pycore_pystate.h"
+
+#define ULong _PyDtoa_ULong
+#define Long _PyDtoa_Long
+#define ULLong _PyDtoa_ULLong
+#define Kmax _PyDtoa_Kmax
+
+typedef struct _PyDtoa_Bigint Bigint;
+
 
 /* if PY_NO_SHORT_FLOAT_REPR is defined, then don't even try to compile
    the following code */
@@ -154,11 +164,6 @@
 #error "doubles and ints have incompatible endianness"
 #endif
 
-
-typedef uint32_t ULong;
-typedef int32_t Long;
-typedef uint64_t ULLong;
-
 #undef DEBUG
 #ifdef Py_DEBUG
 #define DEBUG
@@ -297,8 +302,6 @@ BCinfo {
 
 #define FFFFFFFF 0xffffffffUL
 
-#define Kmax 7
-
 /* struct Bigint is used to represent arbitrary-precision integers.  These
    integers are stored in sign-magnitude format, with the magnitude stored as
    an array of base 2**32 digits.  Bigints are always normalized: if x is a
@@ -321,14 +324,6 @@ BCinfo {
        significant (x[0]) to most significant (x[wds-1]).
 */
 
-struct
-Bigint {
-    struct Bigint *next;
-    int k, maxwds, sign, wds;
-    ULong x[1];
-};
-
-typedef struct Bigint Bigint;
 
 #ifndef Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER
 
@@ -351,7 +346,13 @@ typedef struct Bigint Bigint;
    Bfree to PyMem_Free.  Investigate whether this has any significant
    performance on impact. */
 
-static Bigint *freelist[Kmax+1];
+
+/* Get Bigint freelist from interpreter  */
+static Bigint **
+get_freelist(void) {
+    PyInterpreterState *interp = _PyInterpreterState_GET();
+    return interp->dtoa_freelist;
+} 
 
 /* Allocate space for a Bigint with up to 1<<k digits */
 
@@ -361,7 +362,7 @@ Balloc(int k)
     int x;
     Bigint *rv;
     unsigned int len;
-
+    Bigint **freelist = get_freelist();
     if (k <= Kmax && (rv = freelist[k]))
         freelist[k] = rv->next;
     else {
@@ -393,6 +394,7 @@ Bfree(Bigint *v)
         if (v->k > Kmax)
             FREE((void*)v);
         else {
+            Bigint **freelist = get_freelist();
             v->next = freelist[v->k];
             freelist[v->k] = v;
         }