[Python-3000] Delayed reference counting idea

[Bob Ippolito]

On 9/19/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Michael Chermside wrote:
>
> > Interestingly, one of the original goals of PyPy was to create a
> > test bed in which it was easy to experiment and answer just this
> > kind of question.
>
> A worry about that is whether the architecture required to
> allow pluggable GC implementations introduces inefficiencies
> of its own that would skew the results.
>

There's no need to worry about that in the case of PyPy. Those kinds
of choices are made way before runtime, so there's no required
indirection.

-bob