On 10/1/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Tulloss wrote: > > Would > > somebody care to give me a brief overview on how the current gc module > > interacts with the interpreter > > The cyclic GC kicks in when memory is running low. Since
This isn't true at all. It's triggered by heuristics based on the total number of allocated objects. It doesn't know how much memory is available and is not called if an allocation fails. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
