[Python-Dev] Cycle collection enhancement idea (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Jun 29 16:53:45 CEST 2008

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis pitrou.net> writes:

I was thinking a flag in the PyObject header would do the trick but there aren't any flags in the PyObject header... gasp.

Actually, we only care about GC-tracked objects (the others are deallocated simply when their refcount falls to zero), so this could be another special value in the gc_refs field, together with a specific macro.

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