Tremendous slowdown due to garbage collection

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I do not argue that Python's default GC parameters must change -- only
> that applications with lots of objects may want to consider a
> reconfiguration.

That's exactly what I was trying to say: it's not that the parameters
are useful for *all* applications (that's why they are tunable
parameters), just that the defaults shouldn't change (as the OP was
requesting).

Regards,
Martin