Martin Drautzburg wrote:
Just for curiosity: does python use a mark-and-sweep garbage collector
or simple reference counting?
I can't resist: Yes, it does.
In the latter case it would not garbage
collect circular references, right ?
Python uses refcounting for all objects, and a generational colle
Martin Drautzburg wrote:
> Just for curiosity: does python use a mark-and-sweep garbage collector
> or simple reference counting?
python the language doesn't specify this, but I assume you meant the CPython
interpreter.
both, sort of: it uses reference counting, and a separate "cycle breaking"
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Just for curiosity: does python use a mark-and-sweep garbage collector
or simple reference counting? In the latter case it would not garbage
collect circular references, right ?
gcmodule.c in the python sources shows the
