Garbage collector - please Help !!

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Fri Jan 19 06:15:09 EST 2001


On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:21:31AM +0000, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> As long as Python 2.0 wasn't compiled with GC disabled,
> cyclical data structures should be collected (modulo a few
> known bugs fixed in 2.1).

Note that the GC in 2.0 is somewhat misnamed.  It doesn't
actually free any memory itself.  It is more of a reference cycle
detector and breaker.  The reference counting mechanism still
takesi care of the memory allocation issues.

  Neil




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