[Python-3000] Is reference counting still needed?

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/19/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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.

Not that I disagree -- do you have specific data or reasoning to back
this up? I'd love to hear that we were right all the time! :-)

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