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Author	vstinner
Recipients	ned.deily, vstinner, yselivanov
Date	2018-06-08.06:51:36
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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> I'd love to have a flag to turn this on, or maybe we should enable it for -X dev. Well, there is already a public API to do it manually: gc.set_threshold(5). I'm not sure about a threshold of 5 for -X dev: that's very very low and so kill performances. -X dev can be slower, not but 10x slower for example. I didn't measure performance. Such bug is rare, so I'm not sure about putting gc.set_threshold(5) in -X dev.

> I'd love to have a flag to turn this on, or maybe we should enable it for -X dev.

Well, there is already a public API to do it manually: gc.set_threshold(5).

I'm not sure about a threshold of 5 for -X dev: that's very very low and so kill performances. -X dev can be slower, not but 10x slower for example. I didn't measure performance.

Such bug is rare, so I'm not sure about putting gc.set_threshold(5) in -X dev.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-06-08 06:51:36	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, ned.deily, yselivanov
2018-06-08 06:51:36	vstinner	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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