Disabling garbage colletion?

[Neil Schemenauer]

Philip Swartzleonard wrote:
> Hm, i just read in another post that you can turn off the garbage 
> collector?

import gc
gc.disable()

> What exactly does this stop from happening?

Cyclic garbage structures will not be deallocated (i.e. only reference
counting will be used).

> Is this a good idea if e.g. you have a system which is guarenteed not
> to have cyclic-y problems? Hm..... =)

Sure, although as Aahz noted, the GC is usually not very expensive.  You
could also disable it and call it explicitly when you think it's
necessary (i.e. gc.collect()).

  Neil