Use gc.collect only when needed to avoid slow downs #2483
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In 42320a1 we added a call to gc.collect to resolve some issues on windows (see #2482)
However calling gc.collect too often causes significant slow downs (the CI run time doubled).
So I just moved the gc.collect call to the exact place where it's actually needed: when post-processing a dataset