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Maybe there should be a way to traverse all immortal code objects at Python exit and clear their PyCodeObject.co_quickened member (and maybe some other members).
Would it be possible to enhance deepfreeze be produce a list of all (immortal) code objects?
I did something similar for static types with _PyStaticType_Dealloc() in bpo-46417, but it's easy since the list of static type is known in advance and it's short (100 to 200 types).
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I'm working on fixing the very old bug bpo-1635741: Python must release all memory that it called in Py_Finalize(). It matters when Python is embedded in an application. It makes sense to call Py_Initialize()/Py_Finalize() multiple times in such use case. Python should not leak any memory.
With my PR 30815 fix + my msg411321 workaround, "./python -I -X showrefcount -c pass" now says that Python leaks exactly *zero* memory block: so bpo-1635741 is basically fixed, for the simplest Python command ("pass"). Obviously, I expect that more work is needed for more complex workload, since there are other static types which are still not cleared at Python exit, and more C extension modules which are not ported to the multi-phase initialization API (PEP 489).
Valgrind is just one way to see the issue.