From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-08-24T04:37:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby Uses Mark-and-Sweep GC?

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 15:19, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> > B) Even Python doesn't use ref counting any more
> 
> Sure it does. Python 2.0 did, however, add a garbage collector that 
> tries to detect cycles (see http://arctrix.com/nas/python/gc).

Ah.  "My bad."  I had thought Python 2 switched over to a full GC.  (I
don't keep up on Python anymore.)

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