safe, ref-counted support for dynamic memory allocation

[robertwb]

See this thread:

http://codespeak.net/pipermail/cython-dev/2008-November/003090.html

This depends on ticket http://trac.cython.org/ticket/152 as the Memory object should subtype PyVarObject to be efficient. An initial implementation could do without, though, and simply do two allocations.

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[robertwb]

scoder changed description from

See this thread:

http://codespeak.net/pipermail/cython-dev/2008-November/003090.html

This depends on ticket http://trac.cython.org/ticket/152 as the Memory object should subtype PyVarObject to be efficient. An initial implementation could do without, though, and simply do two allocations.

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See this thread:

http://codespeak.net/pipermail/cython-dev/2008-November/003090.html

This depends on ticket http://trac.cython.org/ticket/152 as the Memory object should subtype PyVarObject to be efficient. An initial implementation could do without, though, and simply do two allocations.
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[robertwb]

scoder commented

Additional comments here:

http://codespeak.net/pipermail/cython-dev/2008-December/003206.html