Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > In message <op.u8nfpex8y5e...@laptopwanja>, Wanja Gayk wrote: > > > Reference counting is about the worst technique for garbage collection. > > It avoids the need for garbage collection. It means I can write things like
I'm by no means an expert, but how does reference counting deal with arbitrary long cycles of references (btw I've *written* a simple reference counter for a programming language)? When I asked someone whose knowlege of Java I trust, he said that modern Java's do both reference counting and garbage collection. That was 2 or 3 years ago. I would have guessed that Python was the same. -- Experience should guide us, not rule us. Chris Gray -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
