On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Alexandre Vassalotti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Would anyone mind if I did add a public C API for gc.disable() and >> gc.enable()? I would like to use it as an optimization for the pickle >> module (I found out that I get a good 2x speedup just by disabling the >> GC while loading large pickles). Of course, I could simply import the >> gc module and call the functions there, but that seems overkill to me. >> I included the patch below for review. > > I'd rather see it fixed. It behaves quadratically if you load enough > to trigger full collection a few times. >
Do you have any idea how this behavior could be fixed? I am not a GC expert, but I could try to fix this. -- Alexandre _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
