[Python-Dev] Lazily GC tracking tuples

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
08 May 2002 07:04:02 +0200


"Tim Peters" <tim_one@email.msn.com> writes:

> The micro-optimizer in me would like to combine testing for "safe to
> untrack" objects with the whole-list crawl being done anyway in
> update_refs() at the start of a collection.

But that brings us back to determining whether an object is "safe to
untrack". Are you suggesting that update_refs should know what tuples
are?

Regards,
Martin