Martin> Now we are getting into details: you do NOT have to lock an
Martin> object to modify its reference count. An atomic
Martin> increment/decrement operation is enough.
Implemented in asm I suspect? For common CPUs this could just be part of
the normal Python distribution. For uncommon ones this could use a lock
until someone gets around to writing the necessary couple lines of
assembler.
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