Nice garbage collector for C extensions!

[Michael Hudson]

Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:

> [Nick Jacobson]
> >>> What about the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector (at
> >>> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/)?
> 
> [Michael Hudson]
> >> It's been tried, with unspectacular results.
> 
> [Nick]
> > What's been tried?
> 
> Using BDW with Python, by several people over a span of years.
> 
> > I was suggesting using this garbage collector to avoid the need for reference
> > counting when writing C extensions.  Has that been tried?
> 
> Right.
> 
> >  And if so, what do you mean by "unspectacular"?
> 
> Crashes and slowdowns.

Were there crashes?  I don't remember that bit...

Cheers,
mwh

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