garbage collector and real-time

hello,

i don't know much about garbage collectors and i'm just coding a little 
bit in python. i also don't understand much about what you are talking 
here. i just wonder if the design of the garbage collector could prevent 
the usage of prothon for real-time applications (not hard real-time). i 
remember a thread in the supercollider mailing list about the python and 
audio synthesis. iirc there where some issues with the garbage 
collector, that could prevent real-time processing for audio applications.

supercollider is a server/client software for audio synthesis and in 
theory you could replace the supercollider language (client) with 
another one. someone suggested python on the supercollider mailing list, 
but nobody tried it ever.

as i wrote, i have no clue about this stuff, but wonder if you had 
real-time capabilities in mind, when you decided about the gc design.