darrenr <python-roun...@dranalli.com> added the comment: A 'stop-the-world' garbage collector that periodically released the GIL could be run in a second thread, allowing the main thread to break in and do some processing. However the nature of a stop-the-world collector means that it probably would not easily be able to deal with changes made by other threads in the middle of the collect.
My concern is that the Python process blocks and is unresponsive due to garbage collection for periods of time that are not acceptable for realtime interactive applications. Are there any plans to add an incremental collector to Python? _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4794> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
