Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Thu Oct 13 17:53:08 EDT 2005


> Yes, that would describe just about every cpu for the past 30 years
> that's a plausible Python target.

No. The later 68K (>68020) could address on odd adresses. And AFAIK all 
x86 can because of their 8080 stemming.

Don't confuse this with 16Bit aligned addressing - _that_ is the minimum 
for years, and of course doing something like

move.l #1, d0   // move 4 byte ad immediate address 1 into data register 0

is a nightmare on runtime - but working, nontehless.

Diez



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