[Patches] GC infrastructure patch 1 (tp_recurse, tp_clear)

Neil Schemenauer nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:22:04 -0600


On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:09:01AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Uhm, I was referring to the memory costs of those 3 additional
> words needed for every GC aware object, not so much the 
> performance costs.

Hmm, I'm not following you here.  How does using the free lists
save the 3 words of memory?

    Neil

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