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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 04:33:44 +1100
Subject: Re: Speeding up Python's exit
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it any different if you create a deliberate reference loop and then
>> stuff it into some module somewhere? That would force it to be kept
>> until interpreter shutdown, and then a cyclic garbage collection after
>> that, which quite probably would be never run. A stupid trick,
>> perhaps, but it might work; I tested it with a dummy class with a
>> __del__ method and it wasn't called. Putting it into some other module
>> may not be necessary, but I don't know what happens with the
>> interactive interpreter and what gets freed up when.
>
> __del__ is never called for cyclic references.

D'oh. Test is flawed, then. But is the theory plausible? That the
cycle detector won't be called on exit after other modules get freed?

ChrisA