Re:We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology
by karlding on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:08PM
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FWIW, there's actually a CPython patch from Instagram [0] that proposes "Immortal Instances" (and I understand that YouTube had their own set of patches for "Eternal Refcounts") which aims to alleviate some of those issues and reduce Copy-on-Writes.
[0] https://bugs.python.org/issue40255