stefan kersten: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:24:28AM +0100, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: > > > 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. > > note that reference counting behavior doesn't differ that > much from a sweeping gc: as soon as a count to a large > object tree drops to zero the whole tree will be freed > instantly, causing an indeterminate delay in execution, > unless you defer free operations until there is time to > perform them. additionally, AFAIK python uses malloc/free > for memory management, which are inherently non-realtime. > Sure, thats true. But at least compaired to the guile GC which stops the world for many many ms-s, its much more predictable. > i'm not sure if turning off gc is a real solution for (long > running) musical applications. why'd you have a gc in the > first place? Smaller and more elegant programs. Less time used on finding bugs. Probably more reasons. --
