Question about garbage collection

[Rainer Deyke]

"Neil Schemenauer" <nascheme at news.cnri.reston.va.us> wrote in message
news:slrn8oh12s.2tm.nascheme at spud.cnri.reston.va.us...
> Python 2.0 will come with an optional garbage collector to
> collect cyclic garbage.  The impact on performance is not yet
> fully understood which is why it will not be enabled by default.

There are, IMO, better uses for garbage collection technology than automatic
garbage collection called on a timer.  How about a function
sys.get_unreferenced which returns a tuple of all existing objects that are
only referenced by other objects in the tuple?  This would make a powerful
debugging tool, since it allows the programmer to fix cyclic references at
the source level.


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