From: "Frédéric van der Plancke" <fvdp@decis.be>
To: rajb@rice.edu, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Disabling the OCaml garbage collector
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:54:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474E7E4D.6090401@decis.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474DADF7.5020204@rice.edu>
Raj wrote:
> The Python GC is very simple, based on reference counts, hence (I
> think) it suffices just to make sure that any object has a refcount >
> 0 to keep the Python GC off.
No, besides doing basic refcounting, the Python GC is also able to
collect cycles despite of refcount > 0.
I don't know the details you better ask the Python list.
Frédéric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-29 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-27 16:28 Raj Bandyopadhyay
2007-11-27 16:41 ` [Caml-list] " Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2007-11-28 18:05 ` Raj
2007-11-28 18:15 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-28 18:31 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-11-28 19:30 ` Raj
2007-11-28 18:25 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-11-28 18:32 ` Xavier Leroy
2007-11-28 19:33 ` Raj
2007-11-28 20:00 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-12-04 20:14 ` Raj Bandyopadhyay
2007-12-05 4:07 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-29 8:54 ` Frédéric van der Plancke [this message]
2007-11-27 17:05 ` [Caml-list] Python and Caml (was: Disabling the OCaml garbage collector) Thomas Fischbacher
2011-08-04 13:10 ` [Caml-list] Python and Caml Stéphane Glondu
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