Friday, April 5, 2013

python garbage collection

read a couple of interesting articles on how the garbage collector works in python. this post points out performance issues when you create lots of new objects without deleting any:

http://dsvensson.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/the-garbage-garbage-collector-of-python/

pymotw is very good, very informative:

http://pymotw.com/2/gc/

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