Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability

[Aahz]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0510102029200.10534 at urchin.earth.li>,
Tom Anderson  <twic at urchin.earth.li> wrote:
>
>Has anyone looked into using a real GC for python? I realise it would be a 
>lot more complexity in the interpreter itself, but it would be faster, 
>more reliable, and would reduce the complexity of extensions.
>
>Hmm. Maybe it wouldn't make extensions easier or more reliable. You'd 
>still need some way of figuring out which variables in C-land held 
>pointers to objects; if anything, that might be harder, unless you want to 
>impose a horrendous JAI-like bondage-and-discipline interface.

Bingo!  There's a reason why one Python motto is "Plays well with
others".
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