Compiling python without garbage collector

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu May 27 09:29:44 EDT 2004


Boris Boutillier <boris.boutillier at arteris.net> writes:

> Is there a not too hackish way to compile Python without the garbage
> collector overhead ?

No, in short.  The difficulties are in the trashcan mechanism that
safely deallocates deeply nested structures, so maybe if you disable
*that* as well...

Cheers,
mwh

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