Circular references (was: Defining VCL-like framework for Py

[Skip Montanaro]

"Yoo C. Chung" wrote:

> Depending on the implementation, garbage collection can always occur
> at exactly certain fixed points for single threaded apps.  (This
> sometimes eases the implementation of a garbage collector, since I can
> set conditional breakpoints to see just which part is allocating a
> piece of misbehaving memory.)

I'm not so sure about that.  A process's memory allocation behavior will
depend upon the memory usage of other processes on the same machine. 
The availability of memory from the system will impact when a garbage
collector is called.

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