Reference counting garbage collection
Paul Rubin
phr-n2001 at nightsong.com
Mon Aug 27 08:06:15 EDT 2001
Eyal Lotem <eyal at hyperroll.com> writes:
> > No, and for several reasons. The most obvious one is that Python runs on
> > word-addressed machines, where no bits of a pointer are abusable.
> Unless Python runs a more strict allocation policy (Allocate only
> even-numbered dwords, or limit the allocation storage to half the size).
What machines are those anyway? How do they deal with byte arrays?
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