[Python-Dev] C API for gc.enable() and gc.disable()

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Alexandre Vassalotti
> <alexandre at peadrop.com> wrote:
>> Would anyone mind if I did add a public C API for gc.disable() and
>> gc.enable()? I would like to use it as an optimization for the pickle
>> module (I found out that I get a good 2x speedup just by disabling the
>> GC while loading large pickles). Of course, I could simply import the
>> gc module and call the functions there, but that seems overkill to me.
>> I included the patch below for review.
>
> I'd rather see it fixed.  It behaves quadratically if you load enough
> to trigger full collection a few times.
>

Do you have any idea how this behavior could be fixed? I am not a GC
expert, but I could try to fix this.

-- Alexandre