Exponential time increase in garbage collection

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1021716090.21250.python-list at python.org>,
Sean McGrath  <sean.mcgrath at propylon.com> wrote:
>
>Depending on the machine the program is run on, there comes a point where
>deleting them from the dictionary takes a long time. Plotting the numbers
>shows a relationship which is distinctly exponential in shape.

Yup.  This is being worked on for Python 2.3, for the case where the
tracked objects are tuples.  If it's not tuples causing the problem for
you, you'll need to manually control gc (or simply disable it if you
know that you don't have any cycles).
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