On Saturday, February 5, 2011, Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> wrote: > Ah, we do get a warning, that is good, did not know. > > Anyway, the concept of RPython is pretty old, since we needed > something that is treatable. And RPython is a good compromise > for most things. > > Meanwhile, a lot of evolution has happened, most of it in the JIT > area, and maybe some things can be generated more lazily > and taken over by the JIT, since dynamic changes like the sudden > appearance of a method could probably be handled differently > than it is right now. >
This is not really a JIT thing at all. The GC needs to do a lot of work for every object with a del at every collection. So giving a del to all objects would need a very different approach in the GC. Cheers, Carl Friedrich _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev