Nice garbage collector for C extensions!

[Michael Hudson]

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

> [mwh, on using BDW in Python]
> > Were there crashes?  I don't remember that bit...
> 
> That came out of the best-analyzed attempt to use BDW in Python (Neil
> Schemenauer's, about 5 years ago).  Long thread starting here:
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-July/007623.html

Oh right.  They seem to have been fixed without too much pain, though.

Interesting thread, from a historical perspective...

Cheers.
mwh

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