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Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from

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@ -45,9 +45,12 @@ allowed to postpone garbage collection or omit it altogether --- it is
a matter of implementation quality how garbage collection is a matter of implementation quality how garbage collection is
implemented, as long as no objects are collected that are still implemented, as long as no objects are collected that are still
reachable. (Implementation note: the current implementation uses a reachable. (Implementation note: the current implementation uses a
reference-counting scheme which collects most objects as soon as they reference-counting scheme with (optional) delayed detection of
become unreachable, but never collects garbage containing circular cyclicly linked garbage, which collects most objects as soon as they
references.) become unreachable, but is not guaranteed to collect garbage
containing circular references. See the
\citetitle[../lib/module-gc.html]{Python Library Reference} for
information on controlling the collection of cyclic garbage.)
\index{garbage collection} \index{garbage collection}
\index{reference counting} \index{reference counting}
\index{unreachable object} \index{unreachable object}