On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> The garbage collector has nothing to do with the memory usage of immutable > types like ints. There are deallocated instantly when the last reference > you hold is cleared (in CPython). So if you run out of memory because of > them then it is because you're keeping them alive in your own code. Running > the garbage collector with gc.collect cannot help with that. > Well that's sort of interesting... so it's different for mutables? huh. Anyway, I think I got what I can reasonably hope to get from this question, thanks to you and everyone! -- Keith
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