On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 at 22:42, Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com
<mailto:e...@trueblade.com>> wrote:
While they're immutable at the Python level, strings (and all other
objects) are mutated at the C level, due to reference count
updates. You
need to consider this if you're sharing objects without locking or
other
synchronization.
This is interesting. What if you want to have a language that uses
only immutable objects and garbage collection? Could smart pointers
address this problem?
Yes, garbage collection changes the picture entirely, with or without
immutable objects. But the original topic was cross-processs shared
memory, and I don't know of any cross-process aware garbage collectors
that support shared memory. Although such a thing could easily exist
without my knowledge.
Eric
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