[Python-Dev] Another Proposal: Run GC less often

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:28 PM +0200 6/21/08, none wrote:
>Instead of collecting objects after a fixed number of allocations (700)
 ...

I've seen this asserted several times in this thread:  that GC is done
every fixed number of allocations.  This is not correct.  GC is done when
the surplus of allocations less deallocations exceeds a threashold.  See
Modules/gcmodule.c and look for ".count++" and ".count--".  In normal
operation, allocations and deallocations stay somewhat balanced, but when
creating a large data structure, it's allocations all the way and GC runs
often.
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