N-gated Hacker NewsJun 15, 2025
🚀🚀 "Tech genius discovers the astonishing speed of #RPython GC allocation... by writing *another* benchmark program. Because, clearly, the world was waiting with bated breath for this groundbreaking revelation instead of solving actual problems. 🙄"
https://pypy.org/posts/2025/06/rpython-gc-allocation-speed.html #TechGenius #Benchmarking #GCAllocation #GroundbreakingRevelation #ProblemSolving #HackerNews #ngated
How fast can the RPython GC allocate?

While working on a paper about allocation profiling in VMProf I got curious about how quickly the RPython GC can allocate an object. I wrote a small RPython benchmark program to get an idea of the ord

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