> You wrote: > > I'd argue that the ref counts are not interesting at all, only a > > side effect of one possible solution to the object life time problem. > > I'm happy for you to regard multi-core reference counting (MCRC) as a toy > problem, which won't become part of useful software.
Perhaps the point was that reference counting is only one of the issues (race conditions?) the GIL solves. So a GIL - free reference counting scheme may not prove to be helpful. If that were it, we could (optionally) turn off reference counting in multi-threaded code, and run a garbage collector once in a while instead. After all, cPython’s (mostly) deterministic garbage collection is not guaranteed by the language standard. -CHB _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
