The raw memory and object memory allocators both mimic the
malloc/realloc/free interface from ANSI C, but the object memory
allocator can (and, since 2.3, does by default) use a different
- allocation strategy biased towards lots of lots of "small"
- allocations.
+ allocation strategy biased towards lots of "small" allocations.
The object family is used for allocating Python objects, and the
initializers take care of some basic initialization (setting the