Hi Steve You wrote: > My understanding is that reference counting is both deterministic and > immediate. Shifting the reference counting into another thread so that > it becomes non-deterministic and potentially delayed doesn't sound like > an advantage to my naive understanding.
The choice is not as simple as that. Here's an example. Suppose you and your friend want to sort a deck of cards. Here's an algorithm. * Divide the deck into two * Each person sorts their half deck * One of you does a merge of the two half decks This algorithm is non-deterministic. But for a large deck it's quicker than any deterministic algorithm. I hope this helps. -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
