On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 03:07:50PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote: > and it matters. I noted this in public <wink> in 1999, after Neal > Schemenauer tried replacing all of Python's gc with BDW mark-sweep, > and reported: > > I started with Sam Rushing's patch and modified it for Python > 1.5.2c. To my surprise, removing the reference counting > (Py_INCREF, Py_DECREF) actually slowed down Python a lot (over > two times for pystone). > > That thread should still be required reading for anyone thinking of > changing CPython's gc strategy: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-July/0073.html
Seem to have missed a few digits in the url... http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-July/007623.html ~harring
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