Joannah Nanjekye <nanjekyejoan...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> About "5 bits", no, we don't have 'em. Even the relatively modest > ugliness > we have now makes it impossible to port Python to a word->addressed machine > (I'm not sure any still exist!). Nothing in C >guarantees the last 2 or 3 > bits of a pointer "are 0". We're already >using two words to store 2 > persistent pointers, one persistent flag, a >full-width transient reference > count, and two transient flags. In view of this, +1 for avoiding the extra bits for age storage. The steps scheme will work best in this case. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39143> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
