How does Python deal with memory management? Learn the ins and outs of Python's garbage collection system and how to avoid its pitfalls.

There are plenty of memory profilers for Python and plenty for C and C++, but up to this point, there hasn’t been a memory profiler that can work with both Python and C/C++ simultaneously, says ...

When physical memory is scarce, paging causes garbage collection to run an order of magnitude slower than explicit memory management.