Speaking on the speed of GC implementations, Marcin writes: > I'm mostly speculating. It's hard to measure the difference between > garbage collection schemes because most language runtimes are tied > to a particular GC implementation, and thus you can't substitute a > different GC leaving everything else the same.
Interestingly, one of the original goals of PyPy was to create a test bed in which it was easy to experiment and answer just this kind of question. Unfortunately, although they have an architechure allowing pluggable GC algorithms (what an incredible concept!) I don't belive that any reliable conclusions can be drawn from things as they now stand. For more details see http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/garbage_collection.html -- Michael Chermside _______________________________________________ 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
