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int type of Python 2 uses an internal "free list" which has an unlimited size. If once you have 1 million different integers are the same time, the memory will never be released, even if the container storing all these integers is removed, because a reference is kept in the free list.
This is a known issue of Python 2, solved "indirectly" in Python 3, because "int" type of Python 3 does not use a free list. The long type of Python 2 does not use a free list neither. |
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2013-10-13 22:14:10 | vstinner | set | recipients:
+ vstinner, tim.peters, pitrou, tim.golden, r.david.murray, brian.curtin, Пётр.Дёмин |
2013-10-13 22:14:10 | vstinner | set | messageid: <1381702450.57.0.562959436455.issue19246@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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