[Python-Dev] Re: DEBUG_SAVEALL feature for gc not in 2.0b1?

[Vladimir Marangozov]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     Vlad> Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> If I read my (patched) version of gcmodule.c correctly, with the
>     >> gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL bit set, gc.garbage *does* acquire all garbage, not
>     >> just the stuff with __del__ methods.
> 
>     Vlad> Yes. And you don't know which objects are collectable and which
>     Vlad> ones are not by this collector. That is, SAVEALL transforms the
>     Vlad> collector in a cycle detector. 
> 
> Which is precisely what I want.

All right! Since I haven't seen any votes, here's a +1. I'm willing
to handle Neil's patch at SF and let it in after some minor cleanup
that we'll discuss on the patch manager.

Any objections or other opinions on this?

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