title: Why disable the garbage collector?
body: <p>Pythons <a href="http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/gc.html#gc.disable" rel="noreferrer"><code>gc.disable</code></a> disables automatic garbage collection.  As I understand it, that would have quite some side-effects.  Why would anyone want to disable automatic garbage collection, and how could one effectively manage memory without it?</p>