[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It was removed at one point in the dim, dark past (circa Python 1.4) on an > experimental basis. Aside from the huge amount of work, it resulted in > significantly lower performance for single-threaded apps (that is, the > common case).
That's probably because they had to put locking and unlocking around every access to a reference count. A real GC might have fixed that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list