Re: Interest in generational GC for Python

2009-04-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I'm lost there. Isn't CPython using reference counting (i.e updating the > object's state at each reference creation/deletion, and deleting the > objects as soon as they have no more references to them) ? It seemed to > me that generational GC only applied to periodic GCs, like tracing > garbage

Re: Interest in generational GC for Python

2009-04-20 Thread Pascal Chambon
Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Is there any interest in generational garbage collection in Python these days ? Anyone working on it ? This is the time machine at work: the garbage collector in CPython *is* generational (with three generations). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Interest in generational GC for Python

2009-04-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Is there any interest in generational garbage collection in Python these days > ? > > Anyone working on it ? This is the time machine at work: the garbage collector in CPython *is* generational (with three generations). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Interest in generational GC for Python

2009-04-19 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Borked Pseudo Mailed pseudo.borked.net> writes: > > Hello, > > Is there any interest in generational garbage > collection > in Python these days ? > > Anyone working on it ? The PyPy project has implemented more GC's than you want to think about including a ref counting gc, mark-sweep, and se

Re: Interest in generational GC for Python

2009-04-19 Thread Scott David Daniels
Borked Pseudo Mailed wrote: Hello, Is there any interest in generational garbage collection in Python these days ? Anyone working on it ? Thanks Not really all that useful for CPython (you cannot move live objects, without breaking faith with C-coded extensions). PyPy would be where to look

Interest in generational GC for Python

2009-04-19 Thread Borked Pseudo Mailed
Hello, Is there any interest in generational garbage collection in Python these days ? Anyone working on it ? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list