Neil Schemenauer's GC patch in python1.6?

[Robin Becker]

In article <3dn1jkljwy.fsf at kronos.cnri.reston.va.us>, Andrew Kuchling
<akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> writes
>Norman Shelley <Norman_Shelley-RRDN60 at email.sps.mot.com> writes:
>> Is Neil Schemenauer's GC patch scheduled to be in python1.6?
>
>Yes, though whoever compiles Python will have the option to include it
>or not, through an argument to the configure script.  Currently in the
>CVS tree, GC is turned on by default, and you can turn it off by
>specifying --without-cycle-gc.  No one knows if it'll default to on or
>off in the final 2.0 release; that depends on how much a performance
>cost is incurred, and how stable the code proves to be.
>
>>Having to design programs and
>> algorithms with reference counting in mind is just as bad as having to
>> remember to remember to use free() when in C or C++.
>
>No it's not; you don't have to worry about things that can't
>participate in cycles, such as strings for example, but in C you'd
>have to carefully handle allocation for them, too.  
>
>--amk
If GC has finally/nearly made it, what about Chris Tismer's stackless?
-- 
Robin Becker