From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 18:55:45 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-41455: Provide a link to how the third generation is collected in the GC docs... X-Git-Tag: v3.8.6rc1~48 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=105cfb5b182da63e8481fcb009e92546d240c6b5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-41455: Provide a link to how the third generation is collected in the GC docs (GH-21703) Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo (cherry picked from commit 82ca8fada15b121866530f2cdac1b7055be4a244) Co-authored-by: Yaroslav Pankovych <31005942+P-Alban@users.noreply.github.com> --- diff --git a/Doc/library/gc.rst b/Doc/library/gc.rst index 13eda917b9a8..adaa30295b5e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gc.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gc.rst @@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ The :mod:`gc` module provides the following functions: allocations minus the number of deallocations exceeds *threshold0*, collection starts. Initially only generation ``0`` is examined. If generation ``0`` has been examined more than *threshold1* times since generation ``1`` has been - examined, then generation ``1`` is examined as well. Similarly, *threshold2* - controls the number of collections of generation ``1`` before collecting - generation ``2``. + examined, then generation ``1`` is examined as well. + With the third generation, things are a bit more complicated, + see `Collecting the oldest generation `_ for more information. .. function:: get_count()