Ronald Oussoren wrote: > I'd be more worried about changes in semantics, it's pretty convenient > to write 'open(somefile, 'r').read()' to read a file in bulk, currently > this will immediately close the file but with a GC system it may be a > long time before the file is actually closed.
Another data point in favour of deterministic memory management: I was working on a game recently involving OpenGL and animation, and I found that I couldn't get a smooth frame rate until I disabled cyclic GC, after which everything was fine. So I'd be unhappy if refcounting were removed and not replaced with something equally unobtrusive in the case where you don't create a lot of cycles. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
