Queue cleanup

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Aug 30 03:43:41 EDT 2010


Paul Rubin wrote:

> These days I think the GC pause issue is overrated except for real-time
> control applications.

Also for games, which are a fairly common application
these days. Even a few milliseconds can be too long when
you're trying to achieve smooth animation.

I'd be disappointed if CPython ditched refcounting and
then became unsuitable for real-time games as a result.

-- 
Greg



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