On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>wrote:
> 2012/9/6 Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com>: > > Let's imagine that I have some code like the following in RPython: > > > > > > def wrapper_func(arg1, arg2): > > return inner_func(arg2) > > > > def inner_func(x): > > for y in range(x): > > # do something here > > pass > > return -1 > > > > bigint = 1000000 > > > > wrapper_func(list(range(bigint)), bigint) > > Since that's all evaluated at import time, I don't see what the problem is. > > > Nice, but that completely missed the point of my question. I know this wouldn't be a problem in this exact case. The question is: when is the GC free to free data passed into a function's arguments. Will that function hold on to all data passed in through arguments until the execution of the function terminates? If so is there a way to trigger garbage collection of unneeded argument data before the end of the function's execution? Timothy
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