KEKE046 commented on code in PR #327:
URL: https://github.com/apache/tvm-ffi/pull/327#discussion_r2611054830


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python/tvm_ffi/error.py:
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@@ -121,19 +121,29 @@ def append_traceback(
             The new traceback with the appended frame.
 
         """
-        frame = self._create_frame(filename, lineno, func)
-        return types.TracebackType(tb, frame, frame.f_lasti, lineno)
+
+        # Magic hack to prevent a circular reference
+        def create(
+            tb: types.TracebackType | None, frame: types.FrameType, lineno: int
+        ) -> types.TracebackType:
+            return types.TracebackType(tb, frame, frame.f_lasti, lineno)
+
+        return create(tb, self._create_frame(filename, lineno, func), lineno)
 
 
 _TRACEBACK_MANAGER = TracebackManager()
 
 
 def _with_append_backtrace(py_error: BaseException, backtrace: str) -> 
BaseException:
     """Append the backtrace to the py_error and return it."""
-    tb = py_error.__traceback__
-    for filename, lineno, func in _parse_backtrace(backtrace):
-        tb = _TRACEBACK_MANAGER.append_traceback(tb, filename, lineno, func)
-    return py_error.with_traceback(tb)
+    # we manually delete py_error and tb to avoid reference cycle, making it 
faster to gc the locals inside the frame
+    try:
+        tb = py_error.__traceback__
+        for filename, lineno, func in _parse_backtrace(backtrace):
+            tb = _TRACEBACK_MANAGER.append_traceback(tb, filename, lineno, 
func)
+        return py_error.with_traceback(tb)
+    finally:
+        del py_error, tb

Review Comment:
   That's good, but I think we can just move `tb = py_error.__traceback__` 
outside the try block. Because `py_error` always helds a `__traceback__`, this 
can prevent tb from undefined



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