Paul Winkler > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:27:14AM -0800, Bill Schottstaedt wrote: > > I don't think this is a problem; you can usually turn off > > the GC during time-critical code, and in most cases, such code > > is in C anyway (handled via a foreign function interface), and > > at least in normal use, you're in control at that level. > > I don't know about other garbage-collected languages, but > there is no way to temporarily disable GC in Python, > nor any way to force it to run at a particular time. > Yes, but python have a reference-count garbage collector, so the problem shouldn't matter for python. --
