Python's garbage collection was Re: Python reliability
Tom Anderson
twic at urchin.earth.li
Wed Oct 12 19:41:39 EDT 2005
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, it was written:
> Tom Anderson <twic at urchin.earth.li> writes:
>
>> Has anyone looked into using a real GC for python? I realise it would
>> be a lot more complexity in the interpreter itself, but it would be
>> faster, more reliable, and would reduce the complexity of extensions.
>
> The next PyPy sprint (this week I think) is going to focus partly on GC.
Good stuff!
>> Hmm. Maybe it wouldn't make extensions easier or more reliable. You'd
>> still need some way of figuring out which variables in C-land held
>> pointers to objects; if anything, that might be harder, unless you want
>> to impose a horrendous JAI-like bondage-and-discipline interface.
>
> I'm not sure what JAI is (do you mean JNI?)
Yes. Excuse the braino - JAI is Java Advanced Imaging, a component whose
horribleness exceed even that of JNI, hence the confusion.
> but you might look at how Emacs Lisp does it. You have to call a macro
> to protect intermediate heap results in C functions from GC'd, so it's
> possible to make errors, but it cleans up after itself and is generally
> less fraught with hazards than Python's method is.
That makes a lot of sense.
tom
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