[Python-Dev] Disabling cyclic GC in timeit module

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can we disable by default disabling the cyclic gc in timeit module?
> Often posts on pypy-dev or on pypy bugs contain usage of timeit module
> which might change the performance significantly. A good example is
> json benchmarks - you would rather not disable cyclic GC when running
> a web app, so encoding/decoding json in benchmark with the cyclic GC
> disabled does not make sense.
>
> What do you think?

No, it's disabled by default for a reason (to avoid irrelevant noise
in microbenchmarks), and other cases don't trump those original use
cases.

A command line switch to leave it enabled would probably be reasonable, though.

Cheers,
Nick.

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