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The design of CPython's garbage collector is normally not very well documented anywhere in detail or the documentation is dispersed across multiple places and it on top of that it has plenty of arcane implementation details that difficulties its understanding by just reading the code.

This section is an expanded version of my talk at PyconUS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLW5Lyc1FN8&t=1428s

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Preview available here: https://deploy-preview-562--cpython-devguide.netlify.com/garbage_collector.html

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@tim-one I hope you like this addition to the dev guide :)

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This is getting very big already so am going to go ahead and land it and future improvements/fixes can be made as separate PRs.

Thanks a lot to everyone involved for your useful comments, reviews and suggestions 🎉

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