Question

OK, so we are developing an network related application where the user can upload their own python scripts to decide for an algorithm. Our code contains c and cython and python modules.

Since avoiding latency, memory footprint and minimal processing is critical for us, we were wondering if it’s a wise and effective (performance wise) to turn off garbage collection and handle memory deallocation ourselves.

Answer 1

gc.disable only turns off the cyclic garbage collector. Objects will still be collected when the refcount drops to zero anyway. So unless you have a lot of cyclic references, it will make no difference.

Are you are talking about doing a customised Python build and disabling the ref counting GC?