Turn off cycle detection at runtime?

[Aahz]

In article <aun8p6$9df$02$1 at news.t-online.com>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=  <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>
>Even under normal circumstances, the collector will be invoked rarely: 
>every 1000 new objects, a generation 1 collection is initiated. In an 
>application that does not create cycles, many objects will die before gc 
>is invoked, so they don't count towards the 1000 objects.

Nitpick/clarification: In CPython 2.2.2, the collector for generation0
gets run when 700 more objects have been created than deleted.

IOW, this will not run the collector:

    class C: pass
    for i in range(701):
        x = C()

But this will run the collector:

    class C: pass
    L = []
    for i in range(701):
        L.append(C())
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