[Python-Dev] Death to WITH_CYCLE_GC

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Sat, 6 Jul 2002 11:17:30 -0500


    mal> I personally know that developers which have tried to create a
    mal> trimmed down version of the interpreter did like the #ifdefs for
    mal> removing certain parts like e.g. the complex numbers very much. I'm
    mal> just lobbying for them.

I think complex numbers are a bit different.  They had the #ifdef from start
precisely because it was expected they wouldn't be needed in some cases
where memory footprint mattered.  WITH_CYCLE_GC was just a debugging
#ifdef.

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