Hi Stefan, I'm interested in experimenting with a moving GC in CPython, but also by modifying the C API to make sure that it is efficient on PyPy or another Python implementation which uses a moving GC.
As Carl in the other thread, currently, other Python implementations have to emulate PyObject** which is inefficient. Right now, the C API is an exact mapping of CPython internals which prevents us to enhance or optimize CPython, but also makes other Python implementations inefficient when running C extensions. Victor Le ven. 26 juin 2020 à 23:37, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Victor Stinner schrieb am 26.06.20 um 14:39: > > Well, the general problem is to track when the caller ends using a resource. > > Although that is less of a problem if you only allow exposing the internal > data representation and nothing else. In that case, you can tie the > lifetime of the data access to the lifetime of the object. > > Minus moving GCs, as Carl also pointed out. But even there, you could get > away (probably for quite a while) with pinning the data if someone asked > for it. > > Stefan > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NS5MTQFCD7TRZCXS4ZSI3PCPEA5OL6PJ/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XSSVMKWRWZETPKEJR5P4LGRABSQJ4MTC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
