[issue14596] struct.unpack memory leak

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Perhaps the best quick fix would be to only cache small
> PyStructObjects, for some value of 'small'.  (Total size < a few
> hundred bytes, perhaps.)

Or perhaps not care at all? Is there a use case for huge repeat counts?
(limiting cacheability could decrease performance in existing
applications)

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