R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: FWIW, I agree with Antoine here. I think user expectation is that when "garbage" is collected, at least some freed memory will be returned to the operating system. The normal user's conception of what "garbage" is has nothing to do with cycles. It just so happens that in CPython, that's the main thing the garbage collector collects.
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