On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Greg Ewing wrote:
Brett Cannon wrote:
And I know some people love the (mostly) instantaneous garbage collection when the refcount should be at 0.
Yeah, and even a 6 millisecond pause could be too long in some applications, such as high frame rate animation. 6 milliseconds is a *long* time for today's GHz processors.
Hrm. Assuming that really is the maximum, I don't think it's an issue for Python applications: 6ms slices still allow for >150 frames/sec. If overall object creation/destruction throughput is increased or this allows greater throughput on multi-core machines without dramatically decreasing performance for single-CPU machines, it may well be worthwhile. But my primary concern remains the issue of Python being a glue language with external libraries: the GIL is one of our best weapons for making it easy. This approach seems like it would be easier to integrate than other options I've seen. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Look, it's your affair if you want to play with five people, but don't go calling it doubles." --John Cleese anticipates Usenet