Raymond Hettinger schrieb: > * An easier C API would significantly benefit the language in terms of > more extensions being available and in terms of increased reliability > for those extensions. The current refcount scheme results in pervasive > refleak bugs and subsequent, interminable bughunts. It adds to code > verbosity/complexity and makes it tricky for beginning extension writers > to get their first apps done correctly. IOW, I agree that GC without > refcounts will make it easier to write good C code.
I don't think this will be the case. A garbage collector will likely need to find out what the pointer local and global variables are, as well as the pointers hidden in C structures (at least if the collector is going to be "precise"). So I think a Python with "true" GC will be much more error-prone on the C level, with authors not getting the declarations of variables right, and endless bug hunts because a referenced object is already collected, and its memory overwritten. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
