Interesting speed benchmark

[Rainer Deyke]

"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier at storm.ca> wrote in message
news:aRBT6.147831$eK2.35759519 at news4.rdc1.on.home.com...
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 18:00:48 -0600, Mahesh Padmanabhan
> <micronospampad at nospam.yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Seems like that poster was correct in pointing out that the memory
> > management scheme of Java vs Python makes a difference.
>
>     What are the disadvantages of this kind of "lazy garbage collection"?

Basically that you have to do manual resource management for non-memory
resources.

The following function leaks a file handle under Jython but works correctly
under CPython:

def print_file(fname):
  file = open(fname)
  print file.read()


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