A couple garbage collector questions

[Neil Schemenauer]

I wrote:
> I also had to disable the integer, float, and method object
> freelists.

To be fair I re-ran pystone with the freelists disabled for the
referencing counting interpreter (source from CVS):

    Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 1.38
    This machine benchmarks at 7246.38 pystones/second

> Python 2.1b2+ (from CVS) with mark and sweep GC:
> 
>     Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 2.45
>     This machine benchmarks at 4081.63 pystones/second

  Neil