On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:08:41 +0000, bachmeier wrote: > On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:55:09 UTC, JN wrote: > >> Python was also a smashing success, but it doesn't use a garbage >> collector in it's default implementation (CPython). > > I'm pretty sure CPython uses a mark-and-sweep GC together with reference > counting.
It does. Originally it was reference-counting only, but they added the (generational) GC to clean up cyclic references. Because they do reference counting as well, you can disable the GC entirely. https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/gc.html
