Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability

[Paul Rubin]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
> (fwiw, switching to tagging in CPython would break most about
> everything.  might as well start over, and nobody's likely to do
> that to speed up integer- dominated programs a little...)

Yeah, a change of that magnitude in CPython would be madness, but
the question is well worth visiting for PyPy.