Reference counting garbage collection

[Joshua Marshall]

Frederic Giacometti <frederic.giacometti at arakne.com> wrote:

> "Paul Rubin" <phr-n2001 at nightsong.com> wrote in message
> news:7xwv3w78y2.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com...
>> Is there any particular reason Python uses reference counting garbage
>> collection (which leaks memory if there's circular structure) instead

> 1) Reference counting is efficient, simple and robust

Other GC schemes tend to be more efficient (in an amortized sense),
particularly copying collection for languages like Python.