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author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-03-28 19:17:54 (GMT) |
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committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-03-28 19:17:54 (GMT) |
commit | b22b94886dc71ddc11c7dd748c2bb0a47113f5b8 (patch) | |
tree | 03c22133c6c9ab29aaf38a0563b5217cd4b15359 | |
parent | 41eb08616c78602b1c26982e25aa217358bbe536 (diff) | |
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Fix a typo and be more specific
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index e035eb0..9148743 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -132,9 +132,13 @@ A few performance enhancements have been added: * The garbage collector tries to avoid tracking simple containers which can't be part of a cycle. As of now, this is true for tuples and dicts containing atomic types (such as ints, strings, etc.). Transitively, a dict - containing tuples of atomic types won't be tracked either. This helps brings - down the cost of full garbage collections, since it decreases the number of - objects to be considered and traversed by the collector. + containing tuples of atomic types won't be tracked either. This helps bring + down the individual cost of each garbage collection, since it decreases the + number of objects to be considered and traversed by the collector. + + To help diagnosing this optimization, a new function in the :mod:`gc` + module, :func:`is_tracked`, returns True if a given instance is tracked + by the garbage collector, False otherwise. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`4688`.) |