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Re: [Python-Dev] suggestion for smarter garbage collection in function of size (gc.set_collect_mem_growth(2))
by Neil Schemenauer other posts by this author
Dec 28 2005 6:15PM messages near this date

Re: [Python-Dev] New PEP: Using ssize_t as the index type | Re: [Python-Dev] suggestion for smarter garbage collection in function of size (gc.set_collect_mem_growth(2))

Martin v. LÃ¶wis <martin@[...].de>  wrote:
>  One challenge is that PyObject_GC_Del doesn't know how large the memory
>  block is that is being released. So it is difficult to find out how
>  much memory is being released in the collection.

Another idea would be to add accounting to the PyMem_* interfaces.
It could be that most memory is used by objects that are not tracked
by the GC (e.g. strings).  I guess you still have the same problem
in that PyMem_Free may not know how large the memory block is.

  Neil

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