Neil Schemenauer's GC patch in python1.6?

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Sat Jul 15 21:02:08 EDT 2000


In article <20000716012003.L7340 at xs4all.nl>, Thomas Wouters
<thomas at xs4all.net> writes
>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.
>
bit strange that features/defects in java should determine where python
goes. I would certainly like generator style programming to be easier.
-- 
Robin Becker



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