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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 #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with