How to optimize and monitor garbage collection?

[Steve Holden]

On 10/24/2010 8:39 PM, kj wrote:
> What's the most accurate way to monitor memory consumption in a
> Python program, and thereby ensure that gc is working properly?

Trust me, it is. But don't forget that CPython doesn't actually *use*
the garbage collector until you start to create cyclic data structures.
In their absence reference counting alone is sufficient to ensure that
unused object memory is reclaimed.

regards
 Steve

[aside: in general, if you think your program is not working because of
a bug in Python, look harder at your program].
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