Re: Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability

In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0510102029200.10534@urchin.earth.li>,
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote:
>
>Has anyone looked into using a real GC for python? I realise it would be a
>lot more complexity in the interpreter itself, but it would be faster,
>more reliable, and would reduce the complexity of extensions.
>
>Hmm. Maybe it wouldn't make extensions easier or more reliable. You'd
>still need some way of figuring out which variables in C-land held
>pointers to objects; if anything, that might be harder, unless you want to
>impose a horrendous JAI-like bondage-and-discipline interface.

Bingo! There's a reason why one Python motto is "Plays well with
others".

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