[Python-checkins] Update what's new with the latest GC improvements (GH-17708)

Pablo Galindo webhook-mailer at python.org
Thu Dec 26 16:56:47 EST 2019


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f460eea5c5cd555dfdc29558cb990addc5bd35aa
commit: f460eea5c5cd555dfdc29558cb990addc5bd35aa
branch: master
author: Pablo Galindo <Pablogsal at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-12-26T21:56:40Z
summary:

Update what's new with the latest GC improvements (GH-17708)

files:
M Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index 64361bb17f8a4..b315604af5110 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -159,6 +159,14 @@ Added constants :data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_GETLK`, :data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_SETLK`
 and :data:`~fcntl.F_OFD_SETLKW`.
 (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`38602`.)
 
+gc
+--
+
+When the garbage collector makes a collection in which some objects resurrect
+(they are reachable from outside the isolated cycles after the finalizers have
+been executed), do not block the collection of all objects that are still
+unreachable. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo and Tim Peters in :issue:`38379`.)
+
 os
 --
 



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