Queue cleanup

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Aug 28 08:44:17 EDT 2010


In article <4c78e7a5$0$28655$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano  <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>
>On the other hand, the reason that CPython still has reference counting 
>is that the alternatives tried so far are unacceptably for non-threaded 
>code.

No, it's *a* reason, the other main reason being that refcounting is much
easier for a random C library.
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