Leif Walsh wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:04 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote:
These long exit times are usually caused by the garbage collection
of objects. This can be a very time consuming task.
In that case, the question would be "why is the interpreter collecting
garbage when it knows we're trying to exit anyway?".
Because finalizers are only called when an object is destroyed presumably.
Michael
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