Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

[Niles Rogoff]

> Niles, if you want to claim wxjmfauth is right, you'll have to present
> some actual evidence.  He's claimed for years that Python's Unicode
> support is buggy (as he does here), without ever demonstrating a bug.
> We've long ago tired of trying to reason with him.
> 
> The tradeoffs of memory use for algorithmic complexity are well
> understood, and have been endlessly discussed. There is not an
> "obviously right" answer to how to make those tradeoffs.
> 
> --Ned.

Aah, I didn't know, I'm new here. I thought he was referring to UTF-16 
being inefficient, which is mostly what I was agreeing with.