[Tutor] garbage collecting

[Mark Lawrence]

On 08/01/2014 09:30, Keith Winston wrote:
> 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.
>

Typical symptoms of hammering a system particularly when you start 
swapping memory to and from disk.  The usual solution is to find a 
better algorithm or buy more ram :)

A slight aside you've managed to lose all of my context, more problems 
with gmail I take it?

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence