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Re:Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram by kbd on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:00PM (#13429755)
> Similar to turning off the GC in the JVM

It's absolutely not the same. The JVM uses GC for all object collection. Python uses reference counting and only relies on GC to clean up cycles.

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