Python efficiency and large objects in memory?

Since the collection is shrinking at the same rate that rows is growing, your memory usage will remain stable. The gc.collect() call is not going to make much difference.

If your algorithm depends on pop'ing from the left side or beginning of a list, you can use deque object from collections as a faster alternative.

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