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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-01-09 21:40:55 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-01-09 21:40:55 (GMT) |
| commit | 4c5ecb7cbbb7b20e8c643addc092edf72e753e16 (patch) | |
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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.
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@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1 Core and Builtins ----------------- +- 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 #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t. - Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with |