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@@ -919,6 +919,7 @@ William Lewis Akira Li Robert Li Xuanji Li +Zekun Li Robert van Liere Ross Light Shawn Ligocki diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-16-14-27-25.bpo-31558.K-uRRm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-16-14-27-25.bpo-31558.K-uRRm.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d502f15 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-16-14-27-25.bpo-31558.K-uRRm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +``gc.freeze()`` is a new API that allows for moving all objects currently +tracked by the garbage collector to a permanent generation, effectively +removing them from future collection events. This can be used to protect +those objects from having their PyGC_Head mutated. In effect, this enables +great copy-on-write stability at fork(). |