[Python-Dev] PEP 340: Deterministic Finalisation (new PEP draft, either a competitor or update to PEP 340)
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 10 04:50:22 CEST 2005
Josiah Carlson wrote:
> 2. Standard for/while loops should not be finalized in a timely fashion,
> because testing for the proper methods would necessarily slow down large
> amounts of current Python, so should be left to the garbage collector.
I'm not convinced about that. If implemented properly,
it could be as simple as testing whether a slot of a
type object is populated during processing of the
bytecode which causes exit from the loop.
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