[Python-3000] Delayed reference counting idea

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Sep 18 23:19:05 CEST 2006


Ronald Oussoren schrieb:
> hear, hear ;-). Other anecdotical evidence says that a GC can be
> significantly faster than manual allocation, especially a copying
> collector where allocation can be really, really cheap.

OTOH, it isn't typically faster than obmalloc (which also allocates
in constant time "on average").

Regards,
Martin


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