Reference counting garbage collection

[Paul Rubin]

Markus Schaber <markus at schabi.de> writes:
> > I guess that might be the case, at least with the current body of
> > Python programs.  I'm thinking of Python's implementation in terms of
> > whether it's suitable for large, long-running programs, and it's
> > not clear whether anyone really writes those in Python.
> 
> Zope comes in my mind...

Yes, Zope is probably a good example.  I'm told it's slow ;).
I'd like to get around to playing with it sometime though.

> Maybe your docs describe Python 1.5 (which is still the default python 
> for debian, e. G.), but today, python 2.1.1 is stable and 2.2.X is 
> cutting edge :-)

I think it was the 2.1 docs I was looking in, that said cyclic
structures weren't gc'd.  Maybe I missed something, or maybe it needs
an update.