On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:22:05 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> Java - The JVM code been hacked to death by Sun engineers (optimised) >> Python - The PVM code has seen speed-ups in Unladen or via Pyrex.. >> ad-infinitum but nowhere as near to JVM > > Python is still faster, though. I think a key reason is that its VM supports > reference-counting, which the Java folks never quite got the grasp of.
So how does Python handle circular references? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
