On 2017-08-05 22:41, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 08/05/2017 11:16 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
It uses
reference counting, so most objects are reclaimed immediately when their
reference count goes to zero, such as at the end of local scopes.
Given this code:
class SomeObject:
.....
for foo in somelist:
a = SomeObject(foo)
b = SomeObject(foo)
c = SomeObject(foo)
# Do something or other
...
# Bottom of 'for' scope
Are you saying that each time a,b,c are reassigned to new instances of
SomeObject the old instance counts go to 0 and are immediately - as in
synchronously, right now, on the spot - removed from memory? My
understanding was (and I may well be wrong), that the reference count
does get decremented - in this case to 0 - but the *detection* of that
fact does not happen until the gc sweep looks through the heap for such
stale objects.
After this:
a = SomeObject(foo)
the name "a" is bound to an instance of SomeObject and the reference
count of that instance is 1.
If you then bind "a" to something else:
a = None
the reference count of the instance is decremented to 0, at which point
the instance is reclaimed.
The GC sweep stuff is for handling cycles where an object is unreachable
but its reference count is non-zero.
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