Disable garbage collection for gyp_chromium.

build/gyp_chromium

 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # This script is wrapper for Chromium that adds some support for how GYP
 # is invoked by Chromium beyond what can be done in the gclient hooks.
 
 import glob
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   AddInclude(os.path.join(script_dir, 'common.gypi'))
 
   # Optionally add supplemental .gypi files if present.
   for supplement in supplemental_files:
     AddInclude(supplement)
 
   return result
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+  # Disabling garbage collection saves about 1 second out of 16 on a Linux
+  # z620 workstation. Since this is a short-lived process it's not a problem to
+  # leak a few cyclyc references in order to spare the CPU cycles for
+  # scanning the heap.
+  import gc
+  gc.disable()
+
   args = sys.argv[1:]
 
   use_analyzer = len(args) and args[0] == '--analyzer'
   if use_analyzer:
     args.pop(0)
     os.environ['GYP_GENERATORS'] = 'analyzer'
     args.append('-Gconfig_path=' + args.pop(0))
     args.append('-Ganalyzer_output_path=' + args.pop(0))
 
   if int(os.environ.get('GYP_CHROMIUM_NO_ACTION', 0)):
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   if not use_analyzer:
     vs2013_runtime_dll_dirs = vs_toolchain.SetEnvironmentAndGetRuntimeDllDirs()
     if vs2013_runtime_dll_dirs:
       x64_runtime, x86_runtime = vs2013_runtime_dll_dirs
       vs_toolchain.CopyVsRuntimeDlls(
         os.path.join(chrome_src, GetOutputDirectory()),
         (x86_runtime, x64_runtime))
 
   sys.exit(gyp_rc)