Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r53961:0b2663cd686d Date: 2012-03-24 15:39 +0100 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/0b2663cd686d/
Log: Write section about GC. diff --git a/pypy/doc/you-want-to-help.rst b/pypy/doc/you-want-to-help.rst --- a/pypy/doc/you-want-to-help.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/you-want-to-help.rst @@ -60,9 +60,14 @@ xxx -* Garbage Collectors +* Garbage Collectors: as you can notice, there are no ``Py_INCREF/Py_DECREF`` + equivalents in RPython code. `Garbage collection in PyPy`_ is inserted + during translation. Moreover, this is not reference counting; it is a real + GC written as more RPython code. The best one we have so far is in + ``rpython/memory/gc/minimark.py``. - xxx +.. _`Garbage collection in PyPy`: garbage_collection.html + Toolset ======= _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
