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Re:Memory Management in Python by ErikCorry on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:05AM (#20611925)
One explanation could be that the system allocator needs to be thread safe, and this Doren's time with locking. Python is single threaded so perhaps is custom allocator is lock free.
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Re:Memory Management in Python by alexchamberlain on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:46AM (#20612111)
> Python is single threaded

This is inaccurate; especially when considering the thread safety of memory allocation.

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