A 'Python like' language

[Paul Rubin]

"Mark Hahn" <mark at prothon.org> writes:
> If you were designing a new interpreter, would you consider
> reference counting an evil pain for C coders (as I did) and use some
> other GC, or do you think I made a mistake?  Is there a compromise?

I think as long as you're using an interpreter, any performance that you
get back from improved cache behavior by reference counting will be lost
in the noise.  If you're serious about performance you really should be
thinking about a native-code compiler.  Only after that should you worry
much about the fine points of gc design.