Paul Rubin wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > (And personally I think the benefits to programmers of guaranteeing > > > > ref-counting semantics would outweigh the additional headaches for > > > > Jython and other alternative implementations). > > Ref counting is a rather primitive GC technique
I disagree strongly with this assertion. It's not as efficient overall as other GC implementations, but it's not a case of "less efficient to do the same task". Reference counting buys you deterministic GC in the pretty common case where you do not have circular references--and determinism is very valuable to programmers. Other GCs be faster, but they don't actually accomplish the same task. I can come up with plenty of "superior" algorithms for all kinds of tasks if I'm not bound to any particular semantics, but losing correctness for speed is rarely a good idea. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
