[Patches] Re: Garbage collection patches for Python

[Daniel Berlin]

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> No problem.  I've included my Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage
> collector patch too as I have improved it to use autoconfig.  The
> gc patch is small compared to the malloc cleanup.  It should work
> on most Unix machines.  I haven't got it to work properly on
> Windows yet.

Well, Boehm has trouble with shared libraries on quite a few platforms.
It also has trouble with threads on a few platforms.
I remember all this from porting 5.0alpha3 (and previous versions) to
beos.


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> I also added support for classes and instances in Toby's very
> cool GC patch.  If anyone is interested I can make a new patch
> for that.  I am planning to change it to use a hash table instead
> of splay trees.  Please let me know if you have any comments
> about that approach.
> 
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>     Neil
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