cpython/Misc
Raymond Hettinger ab517d2eac Fine tune the speed/space trade-off for overallocating small lists.
The Py2.3 approach overallocated small lists by up to 8 elements.
The last checkin would limited this to one but slowed down (by 20 to 30%)
the creation of small lists between 3 to 8 elements.

This tune-up balances the two, limiting overallocation to 3 elements
(significantly reducing space consumption from Py2.3) and running faster
than the previous checkin.

The first part of the growth pattern (0, 4, 8, 16) neatly meshes with
allocators that trigger data movement only when crossing a power of two
boundary.  Also, then even numbers mesh well with common data alignments.
2004-02-14 18:34:46 +00:00
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RPM Patch #823259: Update spec file: 2003-10-19 18:34:52 +00:00
ACKS SF patch #875689: >100k alloc wasted on startup 2004-02-08 18:54:37 +00:00
AIX-NOTES The fix to use . was incorporated 2003-06-08 02:25:17 +00:00
BeOS-NOTES
BeOS-setup.py Remove support for SunOS 4. 2004-01-17 14:19:44 +00:00
HISTORY Fix a bunch of typos in documentation, docstrings and comments. 2003-10-20 14:01:56 +00:00
NEWS Fine tune the speed/space trade-off for overallocating small lists. 2004-02-14 18:34:46 +00:00
NEWS.help Updated (2.3 OK now) 2003-01-03 03:29:58 +00:00
PURIFY.README
Porting
README mention pymemcompat.h in Misc/README 2003-08-11 16:18:43 +00:00
RFD
SpecialBuilds.txt _Py_PrintReferenceAddresses(): also print the type name. In real use 2003-04-18 00:45:59 +00:00
cheatsheet Update for new module and new builtin. 2003-07-12 23:55:57 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py
gdbinit A helper to dump info about the current frame, 2003-10-03 20:56:15 +00:00
indent.pro
pymemcompat.h Fix grammatically inept comment. 2002-08-22 13:36:11 +00:00
python-mode.el Sync with python-mode project. Adds two changes: 2003-12-18 21:53:33 +00:00
python.man Remove -U from argument list. 2003-05-26 05:15:35 +00:00
setuid-prog.c
vgrindefs

README

Python Misc subdirectory
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This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
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ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
BeOS-NOTES	Notes for building on BeOS
BeOS-setup.py	setup.py replacement for BeOS, see BeOS-NOTES
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
find_recursionlimit.py  Script to find a value for sys.maxrecursionlimit
gdbinit		Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS		News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
pymemcompat.h	Memory interface compatibility file.
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
README		The file you're reading now
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
SpecialBuilds.txt     Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)