Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One challenge is that PyObject_GC_Del doesn't know how large the memory
> block is that is being released. So it is difficult to find out how
> much memory is being released in the collection.

Another idea would be to add accounting to the PyMem_* interfaces.
It could be that most memory is used by objects that are not tracked
by the GC (e.g. strings).  I guess you still have the same problem
in that PyMem_Free may not know how large the memory block is.

  Neil

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