"Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wild Idea: > > From Section 1.10 of "Extending and Embedding": > > Maybe some day a sufficiently portable automatic garbage collector will > be available for C. Until then, we'll have to live with reference counts. > > Any hope such a GC will be available before Python 3.0?
Short answer: not likely. Longer answer: Even if py3k is really Python 3.0, there is the standard 1.5-2 years between 2.x releases, and 3.0 comes 1.5-2 years after 2.9, I would bet modest sums of money against Python 3.0 having non-reference counting GC. Why? Reference counting has worked reasonably well so far (quite well if you ask me). There have been numerous discussions over the years about getting a "real" garbage collector into Python, google for it. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
