A couple garbage collector questions

[Douglas Alan]

"Daniel Dittmar" <daniel.dittmar at sap.com> writes:

> 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.

Why do you need to lock on increment/decrement?  Isn't incrementing or
decrementing an integer an atomic operation on most CPU's?

|>oug