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Sort of. CPython's main GC strategy is is refcounting, which is deterministic. It also does have a cycle-detecting GC that's not deterministic

But this is an implementation detail, so it could change in the future. And CPython isn't the only implementation, either. IronPython, pypy, and Jython all have different GC characteristics.




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