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by rng_civ 2018 days ago
I quickly skimmed over OP's previous posts and I don't think they mention it. According to [0], CPython's GC is ran every X instructions (not sure how up to date the source is).

From this, I guess CPython opted for simplicity instead of implementing something like a memory-usage monitor.

[0] https://realpython.com/cpython-source-code-guide/#garbage-co...