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		ErikCorry on Aug 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memory Management in Python 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.

alexchamberlain on Aug 5, 2019 [–]

> Python is single threaded

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

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