[pypy-dev] Memory management
Richard Emslie
rxe at ukshells.co.uk
Fri Feb 14 23:42:06 CET 2003
Hi all,
This is my first post. I have been enjoying lurking away here, reading
the various threads has been interesting despite having to occasionally
peel my brain off the frying pan ;-)
I have a naive question which I hope some kind sole will help me out on.
I have been waiting for memory management (lower level than garbage
collecting / ref counting) to be discussed. I'm probably barking up the
wrong tree - but a "pypy python" object has to be resident in memory
somehow - and this needs a physical representation and heap allocation /
deallocation presumably?
Perhaps this is a post-bootstrap issue as we can piggy back on the
existing CPython infra-structure during development - but as far as I can
reason this will have to be ultimately handled by a minimal statically
compiled python which we do we do use in bootstrapping our pypy python?
Is this true?
Apologies if this has already been discussed - or I am plain
misunderstanding how things will work. :-)
Good luck with the sprint!
Thanks,
Richard
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