Armin Rigo schrieb am 23.11.18 um 14:15:
> In PyPy we'd have a global table of
> "open objects", and a handle would be an index in that table; closing
> a handle means writing NULL into that table entry.  No emulated
> reference counting needed: we simply use the existing GC to keep alive
> objects that are referenced from one or more table entries.  The cost
> is limited to a single indirection.

Couldn't this also be achieved via reference counting? Count only in C
space, and delete the "open object" when the refcount goes to 0?

Stefan

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