[Python-3000] Delayed reference counting idea

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Sep 19 23:41:05 CEST 2006


Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk schrieb:
> It doesn't move objects in memory, and thus free memory is fragmented.

That's true, but not a problem.

> Memory allocation can't just chop from from a single area of free memory.

That's not true. Python does it all the time. Allocation is in constant
time most of the time (in some applications, it's always constant).

Regards,
Martin


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