[Python-checkins] r70652 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
antoine.pitrou
python-checkins at python.org
Sat Mar 28 20:17:54 CET 2009
Author: antoine.pitrou
Date: Sat Mar 28 20:17:54 2009
New Revision: 70652
Log:
Fix a typo and be more specific
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst Sat Mar 28 20:17:54 2009
@@ -132,9 +132,13 @@
* The garbage collector tries to avoid tracking simple containers which
can't be part of a cycle. As of now, this is true for tuples and dicts
containing atomic types (such as ints, strings, etc.). Transitively, a dict
- containing tuples of atomic types won't be tracked either. This helps brings
- down the cost of full garbage collections, since it decreases the number of
- objects to be considered and traversed by the collector.
+ containing tuples of atomic types won't be tracked either. This helps bring
+ down the individual cost of each garbage collection, since it decreases the
+ number of objects to be considered and traversed by the collector.
+
+ To help diagnosing this optimization, a new function in the :mod:`gc`
+ module, :func:`is_tracked`, returns True if a given instance is tracked
+ by the garbage collector, False otherwise.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`4688`.)
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