Reference counting garbage collection

[kosh]

Paul Rubin wrote:

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> I guess that might be the case, at least with the current body of
> Python programs.  I'm thinking of Python's implementation in terms of
> whether it's suitable for large, long-running programs, and it's
> not clear whether anyone really writes those in Python.
> 

Actually zope is a long running large python program. I usually have it 
running for a few weeks to a few months at a time and it normally used 
between 40M to 120M depending on what is going on. From what I have seen 
the python system does seem to work nicely for large long running programs 
so long as you don't run them on windows. For some reason from what I have 
seen zope will destabilize on windows after running for a while. Sometimes 
it just slows down but more often it seems to die. On a unix system it 
seems to just keep going indefinitely in my experience. There are some 
discussion a while ago in this group about windows vm fragmentation and 
that could be the problem on windows.
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