Neil Schemenauer's GC patch in python1.6?

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Sat Jul 15 19:20:03 EDT 2000


On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:30:19PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
> In article <3dn1jkljwy.fsf at kronos.cnri.reston.va.us>, Andrew Kuchling

[ amk explains cycle-GC will be in 2.0, though possibly optionally ]

> If GC has finally/nearly made it, what about Chris Tismer's stackless?

A different story altogether. I'm sure Christian can give a better
explanation that I can, but I believe the main showstopper is the fact it's
impossible to implement (currently) in JPython, not to mention future Python
compilers. There may be a lot more behind it, though.

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