Progress on the Gilectomy
Robin Becker
robin at reportlab.com
Mon Jun 19 10:10:31 EDT 2017
On 19/06/2017 01:20, Paul Rubin wrote:
.......
> the existing C API quite seriously. Reworking the C modules in the
> stdlib would be a large but not impossible undertaking. The many
> external C modules out there would be more of an issue.
>
I have always found the management of reference counts to be one of the hardest
things about the C api. I'm not sure exactly how C extensions would/should
interact with a GC python. There seem to be different approaches eg lua & go are
both GC languages but seem different in how C/GC memory should interact.
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Robin Becker
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