[Python-Dev] Discussion related to memory leaks requested (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah skrah.temporarily at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 05:37:59 EST 2016

Petr Viktorin <encukou gmail.com> writes:

The hairy details on why the global variables haven't yet gone away are on import-sig [0]. Nick suggested a workable solution there that I really need to go back to and implement.

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/import-sig/2015-July/001022.html

I want to add here that existing schemes for eliminating global variables are inefficient (20% speed hit for _decimal), so a complete solution would have to address that as well.

Stefan Krah

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