realtime design

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 5:28 am, Brian Quinlan wrote:
> Chris Liecti wrote:
> > and why do you think is python different than other languages?
> > i think it has clear semantics, you know whats going on. e.g. you know
> >
> > exactly when memory is freed (CPython) etc.
>
> But the variable timing of memory allocation/deallocation might be
> unacceptable.

What do you mean by variable timing? If you avoid circular references, CPython 
(the C version, not the Java version) has deterministic memory handling.


    Richard