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elfly 27 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole

Maybe they could have included an option to switch between GC implementations, like Java had done before.

Maybe in all those years they could have thought of that.

favorited 26 days ago [–]

They did think of that, and decided it's not worth the maintenance burden.

https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in...

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