Progress on the Gilectomy

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, June 19, 2017 at 7:40:49 PM UTC+5:30, Robin Becker wrote:
> On 19/06/2017 01:20, Paul Rubin wrote:
> .......
> > the existing C API quite seriously.  Reworking the C modules in the
> > stdlib would be a large but not impossible undertaking.  The many
> > external C modules out there would be more of an issue.
> > 
> 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.

Worth reading for chances python missed:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/588958/what-are-the-drawbacks-of-stackless-python

To be fair also this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/377254/stackless-python-and-multicores