[ANNOUNCE] Garbage collection for Python

[Florian Weimer]

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

> Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
> 
> > nascheme at enme.ucalgary.ca (Neil Schemenauer) writes:
> > 
> > > I would rather get the bugs stomped out of my patch and get it
> > > included in 1.6 or 1.7.  We can then remove the FAQ entry.  :)
> > 
> > Is it possible to extend your GC in a way which would permit the
> > execution of several bytecode interpreters in multiple threads?
> 
> Eh?

With the reference counting scheme, you can't do that, because you
have to synchronize access to the reference count, which would result
in a major performance penalty.