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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2008-02-14 12:47:33 (GMT)
committerChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2008-02-14 12:47:33 (GMT)
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Implemented Martin's suggestion to clear the free lists during the garbage collection of the highest generation.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- Clear all free list during a gc.collect() of the highest generation in order
+ to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back memory to the
+ OS earlier.
+
- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a subclass of
collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set to a bound method.