[Python-Dev] PEP 556: Threaded garbage collection

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:52 PM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 12:40:34 -0700
> Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > PyPy just abandons everything when shutting down, instead of running
> > finalizers. See the last paragraph of :
> >
> http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cpython_differences.html#differences-related-to-garbage-collection-strategies
> >
> > So that might be a useful source of experience.
>
> CPython can be embedded in applications, though, and that is why we try
> to be a bit more thorough during the interpreter cleanup phase.
>

Indeed.  My gut feeling is that proposing to not run finalizers on
interpreter shutdown is a non-starter and would get the pep rejected.
We've previously guaranteed that they were run unless the process dies via
an unhandled signal or calls os._exit() in CPython.

-gps
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