A couple garbage collector questions

Tue Apr 3 04:02:39 EDT 2001

> Something nobody has mentioned yet is that RC is cache-friendly,
> whereas pure M&S is quite cache-hostile. This is important

But RC is quite thread hostile (as you have to lock on increment/decrement).
Not a problem in current Python because of the global lock, but possibly
limiting in the future.

Daniel

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