Memory Optimization: Python Object Pools and Common String Operations
Small Integer Pool
The small integer pool is a memory optimizaton strategy implemented in CPython to reduce memory allocation and garbage collection overhead caused by frequent creation and destruction of commonly used small integers. When the CPython interpreter starts, it pre-creates and caches all integers in the range from -5 to 256 inclusi ...
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