[Python-3000] Delayed reference counting idea

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 21 02:54:29 CEST 2006


Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> Incremental GC (e.g. in OCaml) has short pauses. It doesn't scan all
> memory at once, but distributes the work among GC cycles.

Can it be made to guarantee that no pause will
be longer than some small amount, such as 20ms?
Because that's what is needed to ensure smooth
animation.

--
Greg


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