[Python-Dev] Billions of gc's (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:52:57 -0400

Well, millions of live objects is common but isn't a problem. The glitch we're looking at it is surprising slowdown with millions of live container objects. The latter isn't so common.

But millions of tuples are not uncommon. They're probably the only thing to worry about here.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)