All singletons do, AFAIK. And most static types that I can think of also do, even the empty tuple.
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 16:49, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 2:50 AM Pablo Galindo Salgado > <pablog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One thing to consider: ideally, inmortal objects should not participate > in the GC. There is nothing inheritly wrong if they do but we would need to > update the GC (and therefore add more branching in possible hot paths) to > deal with these as the algorithm requires the refcount to be exact to > correctly compute the cycles. > > That's a good point. Do static types and the global singletons > already opt out of GC participation? > > -eric >
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