On Friday, October 12, 2018 at 8:41:12 PM UTC+1, Paul Rubin wrote: > 1) If you keep the existing refcount mechanism, you have to put locks > around all the refcounts, which kills performance since refcounts are > updated all the time.
I think BUFFERED multi-core reference count garbage collection is possible. If so, then locks are not needed. I explain this in this thread: [Python-ideas] Multi-core reference count garbage collection https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/python-ideas/xRPdu3ZGeuk https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2018-July/052054.html -- Jonathan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
