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Re:How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python? by anitil on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:34PM (#38608600)
I'd love to see an example of this if you happen to have one available. I hit a startup-time issue in a previous life, and I wish I had spent the time looking at it back then
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Re:How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python? by explaininjs on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:28AM (#38610677)
A template repo can be found here https://github.com/JacksonKearl/cpython, but it does not implement an ideal malloc, just a baseline one - I am not sure if it is still being used as an assignment.

The repo states that even this dummy implementation:

> has a 60% faster startup as compared to base CPython, and in some test cases has marginally better runtime performance as well.

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Re:How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python? by anitil on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:03PM (#38622506)
Thankyou so much!
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