debugging tip - valgrind friendly python

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:27:00PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> > Robert Collins пишет:
> >> https://edge.launchpad.net/~jamesh/+archive/python
> >>
> >> these packages have pymalloc disabled, so valgrind gets a more accurate
> >> picture of whats happening.
...
> The packages in my PPA include a patch that gets the interpreter to
> detect whether it is running under valgrind or not.  If it is, then
> the pymalloc allocator is disabled, with PyObject_Malloc/PyObject_Free
> passing through to normal malloc/free, which valgrind knows how to
> track.

What's the runtime impact when running not under valgrind?

Any chances for getting that patch upstream?

Marius Gedminas
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