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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2008-02-14 12:47:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2008-02-14 12:47:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 3b718a79af900fdacaf0b825137f69eadc753765 (patch) | |
| tree | 71cbe9fcb7b94a2611e5f62cf329285270615e22 /Misc | |
| parent | 50361d4d9b3e8729aa535c3dfde3d9d2ad899d47 (diff) | |
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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 ----------------- +- 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. |