[Python-Dev] Re: Tagged integers (original) (raw)

Christian Tismer tismer at stackless.com
Tue Jul 20 09:48:09 CEST 2004

David Abrahams wrote:

Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> writes:

Then I saw that Prothon is going a different path: They don't use a Boehm gc, but they make every object indirect, over a global object table, and use generational garbage collection with arenas. I guess this would not lead to problems like stack introspection, finding roots etc., because all objects are in the object table. Of course it is another level of indirection everywhere, with the advantage that object bodies become moveable. That would break countless extension modules, though. Today, extensions can count on stable object addresses.

That's ok. I don't think this whole thread is about a real change of Python in the near future. It is about testing alternatives and to study how things change then. Sure, this is all impossible to make compatible.

ciao - chris

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