Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone looked into using a real GC for python? I realise it would > be a lot more complexity in the interpreter itself, but it would be > faster, more reliable, and would reduce the complexity of extensions.
The next PyPy sprint (this week I think) is going to focus partly on GC. > Hmm. Maybe it wouldn't make extensions easier or more reliable. You'd > still need some way of figuring out which variables in C-land held > pointers to objects; if anything, that might be harder, unless you > want to impose a horrendous JAI-like bondage-and-discipline interface. I'm not sure what JAI is (do you mean JNI?) but you might look at how Emacs Lisp does it. You have to call a macro to protect intermediate heap results in C functions from GC'd, so it's possible to make errors, but it cleans up after itself and is generally less fraught with hazards than Python's method is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
