[Python-3000] Is reference counting still needed?

[Greg Ewing]

Edward C. Jones wrote:

> Maybe some day a sufficiently portable automatic garbage collector will 
> be available for C. Until then, we'll have to live with reference counts.

Even if it did become available, we might not want to
use it. In recent times I've come round to the view that,
on modern architectures where cacheing is all-important,
refcounting + cyclic garbage collection may well be
*better* than mark-and-sweep or some variation thereof.

--
Greg