[pypy-dev] pypy GC on large objects Re: funding/popularity?

[Armin Rigo]

Hi René,

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Dima Tisnek <dimaqq at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically collecting this is hard:
>
> dict(a=range(9**9))

I think you missed the point of my original email.  I was talking
about GC-referenced objects that hold a reference to a large piece of
memory allocated outside the GC.  There is none here, and any GC
(including PyPy's) will do a correct job in collecting this.


A bientôt,

Armin.