Progress on the Gilectomy

[Ethan Furman]

On 06/19/2017 07:10 AM, Robin Becker wrote:

> I have always found the management of reference counts to be one of the hardest things about the C api.  I'm not sure
> exactly how C extensions would/should interact with a GC python. There seem to be different approaches eg lua & go are
> both GC languages but seem different in how C/GC memory should interact.

The conversation would be easier if the proper terms were used.  Reference counting is a valid garbage collecting 
mechanism, therefore Python is also a GC language.

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~Ethan~