[Python-Dev] extremely slow exit for program having huge (45G) dict (python 2.5.2) (original) (raw)

Leif Walsh leif.walsh at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 21:20:22 CET 2008


On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:04 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

These long exit times are usually caused by the garbage collection of objects. This can be a very time consuming task.

In that case, the question would be "why is the interpreter collecting garbage when it knows we're trying to exit anyway?".

-- Cheers, Leif



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