Maxime Istasse added the comment:
> The fact that the GC will take longer time does not qualify this as memory
> leaks. A memory leak is by definition memory that cannot be reclaimed and in
> this case, once the collection of the old generation happens it will be
> collected,
Maxime Istasse added the comment:
TLDR; a short-lived object can make it directly from young generation to old
generation if middle generation collection kicks in while it is not freeable
yet. Old generation is very rarely collected. Several of those objects, if they
imply cyclic references
New submission from Maxime Istasse :
When working on a self-referencing object in the young generation and the
middle-generation collection kicks in, that object is directly moved to the old
generation. (if I understood this well:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob
