[Tutor] garbage collecting

[Keith Winston]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM, eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

> The old float freelist was the same design as the one for 2.x int
> (PyInt, not PyLong), which grows without bound. The design also
> allocates objects in 1 KiB blocks (approx. size). glibc's malloc will
> use the heap for a block that's this small.
>

Thanks Eryksun, pretty sure that's more than I could have known to ask
about garbage collection. But who knows where it will come in handy?


-- 
Keith
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