[Python-Dev] reference leaks, __del__, and annotations

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 5 02:11:14 CEST 2006


James Y Knight wrote:

> All right, then, you could use the top bit of the ob_refcnt field.  
> There's no way to possibly have 2**32 objects on a 32bit system anyhow.

That would slow down every Py_INCREF and Py_DECREF,
which would need to be careful to exclude the
top bit from their operations.

--
Greg


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