One thought that I had is the fact that this whole proposal seems to be based on code blocks never needing to be collected?
given the program: def fun1(v): return v def fun2(v) return v+1 fun1 = fun2 The function code block that was originally bound to the name fun1 should now be collected, as it is no longer referenced. And, if this code is all in module mod1, there could be way off somewhere else, in code that imports this module a statement like mod1.fun1 = fun2 The classic "Monkey Patch" So the compiler can't know if the code object really will be eternal, at best it knows that the code object can only be generated once by how it was compiled, so if we allow it to be leaked we have a finite loss. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/JY5PZT7IVTNUUH6UXMMBYYKSVIHT47UZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
