[Python-Dev] Memory leak tracking
Vladimir Marangozov
Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr
Wed, 12 Jul 2000 02:11:06 +0200 (CEST)
Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>
> How important is it to fix these problems when gc is disabled?
> ...
> Please let me know what you think. If the concensus is to fix them, I
> keep working on them. I do still plan on looking at the few memory
> problems still left even with gc turned on.
I think that if we start relaxing our attention w.r.t. refcount policies,
cyclic refs and the resulting mem leaks _in_the_core_, just because gc
helps in hiding bad practice, we'll suffer more than you would in the
attempt to fix these things.
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