https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/82ca8fada15b121866530f2cdac1b7055be4a244 commit: 82ca8fada15b121866530f2cdac1b7055be4a244 branch: master author: Yaroslav Pankovych <31005942+P-Alban at users.noreply.github.com> committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com> date: 2020年08月08日T19:48:21+01:00 summary: bpo-41455: Provide a link to how the third generation is collected in the GC docs (GH-21703) Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <Pablogsal at gmail.com> files: M Doc/library/gc.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/gc.rst b/Doc/library/gc.rst index 0c33c86530459..2d85cd3431711 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 <https://devguide.python.org/garbage_collector/#collecting-the-oldest-generation>`_ for more information. .. function:: get_count()