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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2008-07-06 03:35:58 (GMT)
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- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with other
freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
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A string containing the copyright pertaining to the Python interpreter.
-.. function:: _compact_freelists()
-
- Compact the free lists of integers and floats by deallocating unused blocks.
- It can reduce the memory usage of the Python process several tenth of
- thousands of integers or floats have been allocated at once.
-
- The return value is a tuple of tuples each containing three elements,
- amount of used objects, total block count before the blocks are deallocated
- and amount of freed blocks. The first tuple refers to ints, the second to
- floats.
-
- This function should be used for specialized purposes only.
-
- .. versionadded:: 2.6
-
-
.. function:: _clear_type_cache()
Clear the internal type cache. The type cache is used to speed up attribute