"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Along with fixing the GIL, I think PyPy needs to give up on this > BASIC-style reference counting and introduce real garbage collection. > Lots of work has been done on concurrent GC and the techniques for it > are reasonably understood by now, especially if there's no hard > real-time requirement.
I believe that gc method (ref count versus other) either is now or will be a PyPy compile option. Flexibility in certain implementation details leading to flexibility in host systems is, I also recall, part of their EC funding rationale. But check their announcements, etc., for verification and details. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
