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gh-135898: Add section to free-threading howto about memory usage.
nascheme Dec 30, 2025
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Replace _thread._local with thread.local.
nascheme Dec 30, 2025
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Improve wording of some text.
nascheme Dec 30, 2025
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Argh, fix class ref.
nascheme Dec 30, 2025
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into gh-135898-ft-memory-u…
nascheme Apr 14, 2026
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Add note about per-thread ref counts.
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Update Doc/howto/free-threading-python.rst
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Replace _thread._local with thread.local.
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nascheme committed Dec 30, 2025
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Doc/howto/free-threading-python.rst
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Expand Up @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ following types:
* module top-level functions
* class methods defined in the class scope
* descriptor objects
* thread-local objects, created by :class:`_thread._local`
* thread-local objects, created by :class:`thread.local`

When deferred reference counting is enabled, references from Python function
stacks are not added to the reference count. This scheme reduces the overhead
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