[Patches] Re: Trashcan vs. GC vs. TRACE_REFS

Neil Schemenauer nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca
Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:18:10 -0600


On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:15:08PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> My own version avoided this by allocating the special fields *before*
> the standard header (playing pointer tricks) but there are problems
> with that approach too...

I use the same (ugly) trick.  What were your problems?

    Neil

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