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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2009-01-09 22:27:08 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r68462 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-09 22:40:55 +0100 (ven., 09 janv. 2009) | 6 lines Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e. collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by Martin von Löwis at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html. ........
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
+ collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
+ destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
+ Martin von Löwis at
+ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
+
- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.