Re: GIL-Removal Project Takes Another Step (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

On 20/03/24 4:14 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

not to
mention the latency when there isn’t quite enough memory for an allocation
and you have to wait until the next GC run to proceed. Run the GC a
thousand times a second, and the latency is still 1 millisecond.

That's not the way it usually works. If you run out of memory, you
run a GC there and then. You don't have to wait for GCs to occur on
a time schedule.
Also, as a previous poster pointed out, GCs are typically scheduled
by number of allocations, not by time.
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Greg