[Python-Dev] Proposal: Run GC less often (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Jun 23 08:13:55 CEST 2008


Neil Schemenauer wrote:

BTW, I suspect that documentation needs updating since I understand that the GC is no longer optional (the stdlib and/or the Python internals create reference cycles themselves).

Is it possible and might it be useful for those internal cycle-creating operations to increment a counter that was part of the gc trigger? Doing millions of 'safe' operations would then leave the counter alone and could have less effect in triggering gc.

tjr



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