[Python-Dev] Text about cycle GC

[Greg Stein]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:
> > > I'm a little disappointed that it will be so difficult for people to
> > > test with GC on, but I'm not going to claim that there is some easy way
> > > to make it a runtime option because I haven't looked at it at all. There
> > > probably isn't.
> > 
> > There isn't.  With an interpreter compiled --with-cycle-gc you can
> > turn off the collection with gc.set_threshold(0) but that's not
> > the same thing.
> > 
> >   Neil
> 
> I wonder if we should turn this option *on* during beta testing?
> 
> That way we gather a lot more experience with its use!  Maybe nobody
> complains and we can leave it on in the final release...

That presumes an adequate number of testers and a wide variety of
deployment/usage scenarios. Given the relatively short timeframe, that may
be a bit aggressive.

I *do* agree with enabling it during the beta. But I'm just not sure about
leaving it on.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/