Re: Re: A non-sucking garbage collector

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:05:24 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <000f01c46ded$4e35ec50$0d01a8c0@MarkVaio>
Christian Tismer wrote:

> Sounds too good to be true. I'l believe it when I see it :-)

It sounds too good to be true to me too.  That's why I've been so excited.
All the different parts just fell into place, the locking, the
lieberman-recommended copying, the continuous operation.  I hope I'm not
fooling myself.

> Makes pretty much sense. Instead of Pythons complexity, you just
> have all non-trivial objects as two parts. And by tagging you
> get rid of all very small objects (I forgot if you used pointer
> tagging? Anyway, this was the reason: python-dev discussed this
> and the consequences for gc).

I don't believe in tagging.  I have all objects as real objects.  This way
all objects have all features.  I hope I can keep it this way.