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Re: Speeding up Python's exit

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From Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Speeding up Python's exit
Date 28 Feb 2013 17:02:52 GMT
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On 2013-02-28, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Can anyone explain why this was so painfully slow, and what (if
> anything) I can do to avoid it in the future?

I think your explanation makes sense. Maybe the nested nature of
the strings was causing it to churn looking for circular
references?

Disabling gc before exiting might do the trick, assuming you're
assiduously managing other resources with context managers.

gc.disable()
exit()


-- 
Neil Cerutti

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Speeding up Python's exit Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-28 16:49 +0000
  Re: Speeding up Python's exit Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-02-28 17:02 +0000
  Re: Speeding up Python's exit Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 04:06 +1100
  Re: Speeding up Python's exit Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 04:33 +1100
  Re: Speeding up Python's exit Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 12:33 -0500
  Re: Speeding up Python's exit Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 12:31 -0500
  Re: Speeding up Python's exit Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-01 01:17 +0000
    Re: Speeding up Python's exit Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-03-01 19:10 +0000
    Re: Speeding up Python's exit Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-01 14:17 -0500
    Re: Speeding up Python's exit Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-03-01 22:51 +0000
      Re: Speeding up Python's exit Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-03-03 18:27 -0500
    Re: Speeding up Python's exit Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 21:51 -0500
  Re: Speeding up Python's exit Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-03-01 14:59 +0000

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