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A brief experiment with PyPy

A brief experiment with PyPy

Posted May 12, 2011 1:42 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: A brief experiment with PyPy by andresfreund
Parent article: A brief experiment with PyPy

Or freeing dead objects less aggressively. I'm willing to bet that there's a lot of temporary objects that get recycled in CPython, but don't get reaped as quickly in the PyPy version.

45M cache misses with a 64 byte line size is ~2.8GB of RAM... that's a lot of RAM to cycle through!


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