Interest in generational GC for Python

[Pascal Chambon]

Martin v. Löwis a écrit :
>> Is there any interest in generational garbage collection in Python these days ?
>>
>> Anyone working on it ?
>>     
>
> This is the time machine at work: the garbage collector in CPython *is*
> generational (with three generations).
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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>
>   
I'm lost there. Isn't CPython using reference counting (i.e updating the 
object's state at each reference creation/deletion, and deleting the 
objects as soon as they have no more references to them) ? It seemed to 
me that generational GC only applied to periodic GCs, like tracing 
garbage collectors. Or is CPython using a mix of both technologies (to 
prevent cycles for example) ?


Regards,
pascal
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