Progress on the Gilectomy
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jun 19 10:20:49 EDT 2017
On 06/19/2017 07:10 AM, Robin Becker wrote:
> 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.
The conversation would be easier if the proper terms were used. Reference counting is a valid garbage collecting
mechanism, therefore Python is also a GC language.
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~Ethan~
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