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  r68462 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-09 22:40:55 +0100 (ven., 09 janv. 2009) | 6 lines

  Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
  collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
  destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
  Martin von Löwis at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
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