I've worked on a couple of million-line codebases that used reference counting. They were a joy, and their latency behavior was beautiful. These days my smalli

I've worked on a couple of million-line codebases that used reference counting. They were a joy, and their latency behavior was beautiful. These days my smallish async Python crawler runs for 24 hours and then starts having 5 second gc-related delays once every couple of minutes. Diagnostics says it's during gc of the longest-lived generation. Sucks to be me. I probably need to stop keeping my long-lived queues as Python objects.