Hi Florin

The refcount garbage collector is only marginally supported (as far as
our tests go), it's definitely neither tested nor really supported
when translated, it was always very slow for example. (and as you
noticed, there is no support for weakrefs for example)

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Papa, Florin <florin.p...@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> This is Florin Papa from the Dynamic Scripting Languages Team at Intel
> Corporation.
>
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> I am trying to build pypy to use the refcount garbage collector, for testing
> purposes. I am following the indications here [1], but the following command
> fails:
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> pypy ../../rpython/bin/rpython -O2 --gc=ref targetpypystandalone
>
>
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> with the error:
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> [translation:ERROR] OpErrFmt: [<W_TypeObject ‘exceptions.ImportError’ at
> 0x89a68a8>: No module named _weakref]
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> When I run pypy in interactive mode, “import _weakref” works fine. I
> encounter the same error if I try to use python to run the rpython script.
> Is the refcount garbage collector still supported?
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> [1] http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/config/translation.gc.html
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> Regards,
>
> Florin
>
>
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