[Python-Dev] Memory leak tracking

[Vladimir Marangozov]

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> How important is it to fix these problems when gc is disabled?
> ...
> Please let me know what you think.  If the concensus is to fix them, I
> keep working on them.  I do still plan on looking at the few memory
> problems still left even with gc turned on.

I think that if we start relaxing our attention w.r.t. refcount policies,
cyclic refs and the resulting mem leaks _in_the_core_, just because gc
helps in hiding bad practice, we'll suffer more than you would in the
attempt to fix these things.

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