[ANNOUNCE] Garbage collection for Python

[Florian Weimer]

Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> 1) Neil's scheme does not replace reference counting.

Oh.

> 2) There are more things between the status quo and a free threaded
>    interpreter than reference counting issues.

Yes, of course.  But the reference counting appears to be quite a
challange (at least if you haven't got an atomic load-increment-store
operation).

> So the answer to your question is: "no".

I see.