Tremendous slowdown due to garbage collection

[Paul Rubin]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
> I believe you are making surmises outside your range of competence
> there. While your faith in the developers is touching, the garbage
> collection scheme is something that has received a lot of attention
> with respect to performance under typical workloads over the years.

Really, Python's cyclic gc is quite crude and should be upgraded to
something that doesn't fall into that quadratic behavior.  There was
some fairly detailed discussion of this in another thread last time
the subject came up.