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| author | Pablo Galindo Salgado <Pablogsal@gmail.com> | 2022-10-08 14:57:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-10-08 14:57:09 (GMT) |
| commit | 83eb827247dd28b13fd816936c74c162e9f52a2d (patch) | |
| tree | 40a8abf0018f178eeadd976ad4cba326f9a86029 /Doc | |
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gh-97922: Run the GC only on eval breaker (#97920)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index f873974..341e851 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst @@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ Other Language Changes when parsing source code containing null bytes. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :gh:`96670`.) +* The Garbage Collector now runs only on the eval breaker mechanism of the + Python bytecode evaluation loop instead on object allocations. The GC can + also run when :c:func:`PyErr_CheckSignals` is called so C extensions that + need to run for a long time without executing any Python code also have a + chance to execute the GC periodically. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in + :gh:`97922`.) + New Modules =========== |