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PEP 848 – Generational Incremental Garbage Collection | peps.python.org

Lina Hope By Lina Hope
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The Evolution of Python Memory Management For decades, CPython has relied on a dual-strategy approach for memory management: reference counting for immediate reclamation and a generational cyclic garbage collector (GC) to handle self-referencing object…