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Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole


Python 3.14.0 introduced a new incremental garbage collector. But reports of higher memory usage caused the Python team to revert the garbage collector changes in 3.14.5.<br /><br />We investigate how memory management works in Python and workloads that perform best and worst for the incremental garbage collector.

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