[Python-Dev] Showstopper

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Sun, 15 Apr 2001 17:40:13 -0500


> Tim Peters wrote:
> > allocating containers "in the middle" of something else is
> > actually rare.
> 
> It looks like you and Guido are working on a solution to avoid
> doing this.  Wouldn't it be better to change the GC so that it
> was okay to do that?  Specifically, I'm thinking of making
> collection only happen between opcodes.  Perhaps that is too
> large of a change to make before the release.
> 
>   Neil

Yes, I'd rather not touch the GC code this late in the game if we can
avoid it.

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