On 2018-03-12, Simon King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jeroen,
>
> On 2018-03-12, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is just the usual Py_DECREF of Python objects, it has nothing to do 
>> with the cyclic garbage collector: the behaviour remains the same even 
>> with gc.disable().
>>
>> This makes me think that we might need a version of CachedRepresentation 
>> which keeps semi-strong references: these would only be deleted by the 
>> cyclic garbage collector but not by a simple Py_DECREF().
>
> Would that remotely be possible without massive changes to Python
> infrastructure?

Deeper changes than a monkey patch to gc.collect seem not to be needed,
see #24954.

Best regards,
Simon

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