[Python-Dev] extremely slow exit for program having huge (45G) dict (python 2.5.2) (original) (raw)
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Leif> In that case, the question would be "why is the interpreter
Leif> collecting garbage when it knows we're trying to exit anyway?".Because useful side effects are sometimes performed as a result of this activity (flushing disk buffers, closing database connections, etc).
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