[Python-Dev] Linus on garbage collection (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 7 02:26:10 CEST 2011


Stefan Behnel wrote:

After all, the described crash case indicates that the Document destructor was called before all of the Element destructors had been called, although all Elements reference their Document, but the Document does not refer to any of the Elements,

In that case, why was the GC system regarding this as a cycle at all? There must be more going on.

-- Greg



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