Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection
https://engineering.instagram.com/copy-on-write-friendly-python-garbage-collection-ad6ed5233ddf [engineering.instagram.com]
2018-01-02 00:38
Enabling GC could alleviate this problem and slow down the memory growth, but undesired Copy-on-write (COW) would still increase the overall memory footprint. So we decided to see if we could make Python GC work without COW, and hence, the memory overhead.
source: HN