- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with other
freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into ClearFreeList apis and
calls them via gc.collect().
diff --git a/Doc/library/gc.rst b/Doc/library/gc.rst
index 70e4a6b..9ebbf06 100644
--- a/Doc/library/gc.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/gc.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@
.. versionchanged:: 2.5
The optional *generation* argument was added.
+ .. versionchanged:: 2.6
+ The free lists maintained for a number of builtin types are cleared
+ whenever a full collection or collection of the highest generation (2)
+ is run. Not all items in some free lists may be freed due to the
+ particular implementation, in particular :class:`int` and :class:`float`.
+
.. function:: set_debug(flags)
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index 2e39633..22397f2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -58,22 +58,6 @@
A string containing the copyright pertaining to the Python interpreter.
-.. function:: _compact_freelists()
-
- Compact the free lists of integers and floats by deallocating unused blocks.
- It can reduce the memory usage of the Python process several tenth of
- thousands of integers or floats have been allocated at once.
-
- The return value is a tuple of tuples each containing three elements,
- amount of used objects, total block count before the blocks are deallocated
- and amount of freed blocks. The first tuple refers to ints, the second to
- floats.
-
- This function should be used for specialized purposes only.
-
- .. versionadded:: 2.6
-
-
.. function:: _clear_type_cache()
Clear the internal type cache. The type cache is used to speed up attribute