gh-135898: Add section to free-threading howto about memory usage.#143279
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As suggested by @kumaraditya303, we should add some additional details about objects that get per-thread reference counting. Currently that's heap allocated types and code objects. See the |
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This higher memory usage (if it actually does happen) is mostly due to design decisions and not due to bugs or implementation flaws. So, I think we should document them somewhere in the user facing docs.
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