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Author skip.montanaro
Recipients gvanrossum, matthiastroffaes, pitrou, rhettinger, skip.montanaro
Date 2009-08-16.14:28:04
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>> I thought GC was expected to eliminate reference cycles.

    Antoine> Of course, but it's also the de facto API when wanting to
    Antoine> reclaim memory.

When did that happen?  I agree with Raymond.  The cyclic gc should just
reclaim cycles.

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