Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability
Diez B. Roggisch
deets at nospam.web.de
Fri Oct 14 06:42:00 EDT 2005
> Yeah, I noticed that, I could have been pedantic about it but chose to
> just describe how these language implementations work in the real
> world with zero exceptions that I know of. I guess I should have
> spelled it out.
You talked about CPU architectures:
"""
>And this presumes an architecture which byte-addresses and only
>> uses "aligned" addresses.
Yes, that would describe just about every cpu for the past 30 years
that's a plausible Python target.
"""
And regarding the "zero exceptions" - I know for sure that quite a few
programs were crashing when the transition in 68K from 24 bit addresses
to real 32 bit was done on popular systems like the ATARI ST - as some
smart-asses back then used the MSByte for additional parameter space.
I can't say though if that was only in assembler writen code - quite
popular back then even for larger apps - or a compiler optimization. I
do presume the former.
Diez
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