On 10/3/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > For stack frames, > > such a registration is difficult to make efficient. > > Also very error-prone if you happen to miss one. Although > maybe no more error-prone than getting the reference > counting right.
Maybe, but reference counting is really easy to debug if you screw it up. This is probably one of the primary benefits of the majority of memory management being executed in reference counting - it's deterministic and easy to debug. I'm not opposed to memory management being done entirely through garbage collection, but it would have to be vastly superior to the current system in both memory efficiency and performance. -- Nick _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
