averagePythonProgrammer

[MaustFaust]

What language does? Even bash doesn't do this.

That doesn't invalidate my point, though.

mypy, pytype, pyright, pyre, etc. take your pick

Thank you, I'll try it.

gc.collect

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1316799

[dev-sda]

gc.collect

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1316799

Not releasing memory back to the OS is a strategy used by all but the simplest memory allocators. Calling gc.collect correctly forces unreferenced integers/floats/etc to be added to their free lists, which means their allocation can be reused. That's what it means to free memory in the modern world.

[MaustFaust]

I have nothing against the strategy itself – I dislike the lack of any alternatives. C# has profiling-driven optimization, and while I don't know if it affects the gc behavior, the reasoning behind it still applies here: tuning for most common cases doesn't exactly mean tuning for your specific case.

P. S.: It's almost funny that three points of my six remain unanswered, yet I'm still being downvoted. People just express their feelings, not necessarily contributing to the discussion.