Tim Peters wrote: > If that is the case here, there's no evident general solution. If you > have millions of objects still alive at exit, refcount-based > reclamation has to visit all of them, and if they've been swapped out > to disk it can take a very long time to swap them all back into memory > again.
In that case, it sounds like using os._exit() to get out of the program without visiting all that memory *is* the right answer (or as right an answer as is available at least). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
