Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>: > Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: >> Guido chose a different method to implement timers for asyncio. He >> decided to never remove canceled timers. > > Oh my, that might not end well. There are other approaches that don't > need AVL trees and can remove cancelled timers, e.g. "timer wheels" as > used in Erlang and formerly (don't know about now) in the Linux > kernel.
The issue is known. It has been tackled with a kind of a "garbage collection" scheme: <URL: https://bugs.python.org/issue22448> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
