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Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Martin von Löwis at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
+ collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
+ destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
+ Martin von Löwis at
+ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
+
- Issue #4604: Some objects of the I/O library could still be used after
having been closed (for instance, a read() call could return some
previously buffered data). Patch by Dmitry Vasiliev.