in conjunction with large mapper graphs, large numbers of
objects:
- The Session's "weak referencing" behavior is now *full* -
no strong references whatsoever are made to a mapped object
or related items/collections in its __dict__. Backrefs and
other cycles in objects no longer affect the Session's ability
to lose all references to unmodified objects. Objects with
pending changes still are maintained strongly until flush.
[ticket:1398]
The implementation also improves performance by moving
the "resurrection" process of garbage collected items
to only be relevant for mappings that map "mutable"
attributes (i.e. PickleType, composite attrs). This removes
overhead from the gc process and simplifies internal
behavior.
If a "mutable" attribute change is the sole change on an object
which is then dereferenced, the mapper will not have access to
other attribute state when the UPDATE is issued. This may present
itself differently to some MapperExtensions.
The change also affects the internal attribute API, but not
the AttributeExtension interface nor any of the publically
documented attribute functions.
- The unit of work no longer genererates a graph of "dependency"
processors for the full graph of mappers during flush(), instead
creating such processors only for those mappers which represent
objects with pending changes. This saves a tremendous number
of method calls in the context of a large interconnected
graph of mappers.
- Cached a wasteful "table sort" operation that previously
occured multiple times per flush, also removing significant
method call count from flush().
- Other redundant behaviors have been simplified in
mapper._save_obj().