A couple garbage collector questions

Neil Schemenauer nas at python.ca
Thu Apr 5 09:31:57 EDT 2001


Tim Peters wrote:
> [Neil Schemenauer]
> > To be fair I re-ran pystone with the freelists disabled for the
> > referencing counting interpreter (source from CVS):
> 
> That's a false fairness, though.

Sure.  I was trying to be a little more fair in the sense that
Python has been tuned for reference counting and not for mark and
sweep GC.  I'm sure there are similar tricks that can be used for
the Boehm GC.

  Neil




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