[ANNOUNCE] Garbage collection for Python

Helge Hess helge.hess at mdlink.de
Tue Apr 11 08:25:08 EDT 2000


Will Ware wrote:
> Florian Weimer (fw at deneb.cygnus.argh.org) wrote:
> > Is it possible to extend your GC in a way which would permit the
> > execution of several bytecode interpreters in multiple threads?
> 
> It sounds like you might want to simply run several copies of the
> Python interpreter in separate processes, which isn't a GC issue.

I think what he wants to do (me too ;-) is to run several copies of the
interpreter in *one* process, possibly in multiple threads.
But I'm not sure whether this is a GC issue though (RC isn't thread-safe
anyway, right ?).

Helge
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