A couple garbage collector questions

[Neil Schemenauer]

Douglas Alan wrote:
> Why doesn't the procedure that a C extension (or embedder) uses to
> increment the reference count of a Python object just register such
> objects as root objects?  The reference count decrementer would then
> unregister such objects.

I don't know what your proposing here.  Do all objects that have
a reference count greater than zero get registered?  Wouldn't
that require the you keep track of all objects?

  Neil