Commit 3720a570 authored by Peter Hinch's avatar Peter Hinch Committed by Damien George

docs/reference: Mention that slicing a memoryview causes allocation.

parent 4954290e
......@@ -91,9 +91,11 @@ code these should be pre-allocated and passed as arguments or as bound objects.
When passing slices of objects such as `bytearray` instances, Python creates
a copy which involves allocation of the size proportional to the size of slice.
This can be alleviated using a `memoryview` object. `memoryview` itself
is allocated on heap, but is a small, fixed-size object, regardless of the size
of slice it points too.
This can be alleviated using a `memoryview` object. The `memoryview` itself
is allocated on the heap, but is a small, fixed-size object, regardless of the size
of slice it points too. Slicing a `memoryview` creates a new `memoryview`, so this
cannot be done in an interrupt service routine. Further, the slice syntax ``a:b``
causes further allocation by instantiating a ``slice(a, b)`` object.
.. code:: python
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