Edward C. Jones wrote: > Maybe some day a sufficiently portable automatic garbage collector will > be available for C. Until then, we'll have to live with reference counts.
Even if it did become available, we might not want to use it. In recent times I've come round to the view that, on modern architectures where cacheing is all-important, refcounting + cyclic garbage collection may well be *better* than mark-and-sweep or some variation thereof. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
