[Python-Dev] C API for gc.enable() and gc.disable()

[Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@bioinformed.com>]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:20 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>
wrote:

> In general, any solution of the "do GC less often" needs to deal with
> cases where lots of garbage gets produced in a short amount of time
> (e.g. in a tight loop), and which run out of memory when GC is done less
> often.
>


Idea 1: Allow GC to run automatically no more often than n CPU seconds, n
being perhaps 5 or 10.
Idea 2: Allow GC to run no more often than f(n) CPU seconds, where n is the
time taken by the last GC round.

These limits could be reset or scaled by the GC collecting more than n% of
the generation 0 objects or maybe the number of PyMalloc arenas increasing
by a certain amount?

-Kevin


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