On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 7:25 AM Vito De Tullio <vito.detul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > >> Reference counting was likely a bad idea to begin with. > > > > Then prove CPython wrong by making a fantastically better > > implementation that uses some other form of garbage collection. > > I'm not talking about the "goodness" of the implemetations, but AFAIK jython > and ironpython doesn't have the refcount gb (and they don't even have the > GIL...) >
Yes, which proves that it's viable. I notice that neither of them has swept CPython away by massively outperforming them, so perhaps reference counting isn't such a terrible idea after all? I'm not disputing that refcounting has its downsides, but "likely a bad idea to begin with" seems to be a bit beyond reasonable. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
