Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection

[breamoreboy at gmail.com]

On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 12:53:03 PM UTC, Wu Xi wrote:
> breamoreboy:
> > On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 6:19:13 PM UTC, Wu Xi wrote:
> >> breamoreboy:
> >>> An interesting write up on something that is incorporated into Python 3.7 https://engineering.instagram.com/copy-on-write-friendly-python-garbage-collection-ad6ed5233ddf
> >>
> >> Appearantly, Erlang is the way to go, when it comes to web frameworks.
> > 
> > What has that got to do with the subject of this thread?
> 
> Well, a little implicitly. Pointing out Erlang superiority in a pythonic newsgroup is, of course, heresy.

Python is fourth in the latest TIOBE index, Erlang doesn't even make the top 20, so in what way is it superior?

Python doesn't need Pinky and the Brain in its quest to take over the world.

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Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.