[issue19533] Unloading docstrings from memory if -OO is given
Stefan Krah
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Nov 9 21:43:36 CET 2013
Stefan Krah added the comment:
R. David Murray <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> So the question is, if there is no longer a reference to the docstring, why isn't it garbage collected? (I tested adding a gc.collect(), and it didn't make any difference.)
I think it probably is garbage collected but the freed memory is not returned to the OS
by the memory allocator.
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