Neal Becker wrote:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00552.html
There, Linus says
For example, if you have an _explicit_ refcounting system, then it is quite natural to have operations like ... note_t *node = *np; if (node->count > 1) newnode = copy_alloc(node);
It's interesting to note that, even though you *can* get reference count information in CPython, it's not all that useful for doing things like that, because it's hard to be sure how many incidental references have been created on the way to the code concerned. So tricks like this at the Python level aren't really feasible in any robust way. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com