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

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:50:57 +0200


Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> 
> 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?

Good question... I don't know what made me think that they
would save memory -- should drink more coffee before posting ;-)

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