[Python-Dev] Documentation about Python's GC, python-dev list messages referenced in Modules/gcmodule.c not reachable anymore

[Tim Peters]

[Josiah Carlson]
> I believe this particular argument is specious.

Not at all, but it's not compelling on its own.

> Using Python won't change requirements for knowing what is or is
> not referenced during program execution for "real time" development.
>  Further, "real time" developers won't be using arbitrary 3rd party code
> which may do unknown crazy things, it'll all be known crazy things.

So you believe they're not going to use any code they didn't write
from scratch themselves?  For example, they're not going to use the
Python libraries?  Not going to use core Python data types?  "3rd
party" seems a wrong distinction if "wholly understood" is what's
relevant.  Even something as simple as list.append(3) _can_ cause a
long delay, and that's not a "_known_ crazy thing" unless you're an
expert in Python internals.

> My flight-controller-software-validator friend tells me that they use a
> slimmed-down variant of Python for some of their software, and that it
> works great.

Then I hope that and a marketing department makes you rich ;-)