[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.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)