[Python-Dev] Minor compilation problem on HP-UX (1.6b1) (fwd)

[Jack Jansen]

> + #ifdef __hpux
> +       mallopt (M_MXFAST, 512);
> + #endif /* __hpux */
> + 

After reading this I went off and actually _read_ the mallopt manpage for the 
first time in my life, and it seems there's quite a few parameters there we 
might want to experiment with. Besides the M_MXFAST there's also M_GRAIN, 
M_BLKSIZ, M_MXCHK and M_FREEHD that could have significant impact on Python 
performance. I know that all the tweaks and tricks I did in the MacPython 
malloc implementation resulted in a speedup of 20% or more (including the 
cache-aligment code in dictobject.c).
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