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On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:11:52 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> ... the idea that GC uses more memory seems erroneous to me.

It will use whatever memory it is permitted to use.

Consider that every time you call a method, a new method-wrapper object is 
dynamically created, and almost always immediately deleted when the call 
returns. So even a very simple, seemingly well-behaved Python script, if 
running for long enough, would consume more and more memory if it were not 
for reference-counting.