[Python-Dev] Text about cycle GC

Neil Schemenauer nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:27:25 -0600


On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:
> I'm a little disappointed that it will be so difficult for people to
> test with GC on, but I'm not going to claim that there is some easy way
> to make it a runtime option because I haven't looked at it at all. There
> probably isn't.

There isn't.  With an interpreter compiled --with-cycle-gc you can
turn off the collection with gc.set_threshold(0) but that's not
the same thing.

  Neil