A couple garbage collector questions

[François Pinard]

[David Allen]

> In article <lclmpj543v.fsf at gaffa.mit.edu>, "Douglas Alan" <nessus at mit.edu>
> wrote:

> > 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?

> I'm hoping somebody will jump in and let us know The Official Reason(TM).

Because this is also what does Perl, internally.  Guido sees far in the
future, and wanted to prepare long in advance for the Great Unification! :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard