July 20, 2018
10:37 a.m.
Hi Steve You wrote
Sorry Jonathan, can you please explain:
- what problem you are solving with this?
- and what's wrong with the existing garbage collector?
The problem I'm trying to solve doing multi-core reference counting garbage collection without a GIL. As far as I know, we're not yet able to do efficient multi-core garbage collection using Python. If anyone can tell me that's already been solved, I'd be delighted. Stephan Houben's post tells us that buffered reference counting appears in the major reference work "The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management", by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss So it might be a good idea. Please let me know if you'd like further information. -- Jonathan