A couple garbage collector questions
Douglas Alan
nessus at mit.edu
Mon Apr 2 18:28:04 EDT 2001
I have a couple of questions regarding the new Python garbage
collector:
(1) Why does it use the rather unusual algorithm it does, rather
than a more typical mark and sweep? The per-object storage cost
for the extra reference count is surely greater than the bit or
two required for a typical mark and sweep.
(2) Why does the algorithm need back-pointers for the object chain?
Just curious. Thanks.
|>oug
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