[Tutor] garbage collecting

[Keith Winston]

well, fair enough. Generally, the issue involves instances when Python will
come back, but it might take several minutes or much longer. And weird
behaviour ensues: like timers I put on the program don't actually time the
amount of time it's busy (by a very, very large margin). Also, often
several minutes after such a thing (sometimes quite a bit later), things
will suddenly start working quickly again. Also, on my laptop I can
actually tell when it's struggling, b/c the fan turns on and/or speeds up,
and in many of  these cases it will go into all-out mode, even though I'm
not doing anything. But your point about having no lever with which to move
the world is a good one.
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