On 02/24/10 12:08, Nobody wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:22:05 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>> Java - The JVM code been hacked to death by Sun engineers (optimised) >>> Python - The PVM code has seen speed-ups in Unladen or via Pyrex.. >>> ad-infinitum but nowhere as near to JVM >> >> Python is still faster, though. I think a key reason is that its VM supports >> reference-counting, which the Java folks never quite got the grasp of. > > So how does Python handle circular references?
There is an optional garbage collector built into the interpreter. Look at here on how it works: http://python.ca/nas/python/gc/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
