Richard Damon wrote:
The idea was to have a way to mark that certain classes/objects request that they are reference counted so they get the __del__ called as soon as the last reference goes away, without needing to require that overhead for all objects in all implementations.
That could be done with a flag in the object or type header. But checking the flag every time a reference is added or removed is probably about as expensive as doing the refcount adjustment. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
