[Python-Dev] recursive closures - reference leak

[Daniel Stutzbach]

2009/12/8 Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>

> Note that disabling gc
> does not mean that you will not have unpredictable pauses. Consider
> for example that if you loose a reference to a very long chain of
> objects, you can have arbitrarily many frees being called before
> anything else can happen.
>

That strikes me as a *predictable* long pause.

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