Gael Le Mignot added the comment:
It's not something that can be easily benched because it depends a lot of the
use case. If some conditions are present (big amount of data sent to XML-RPC,
the XML-RPC server taking a long time to answer, end either Python giving back
the memory to the
Gael Le Mignot added the comment:
Great that join does the optimisation by itself now, but the last issue of the
patch (cleaning the _data array before calling f() so the memory of _data can
be collected earlier) still seems meaningful today
