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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 7 10:20:23 CEST 2011

Stefan Behnel wrote:

It's a dead-end that is referenced by a cycle, that's all.

But shouldn't it be breaking the cycle by clearing one of the objects that's actually part of the cycle, rather than part of the dead-end?

I can't see how the Document could get picked for clearing unless it was actually in the cycle. Either that or I'm imagining the cyclic GC algorithm to be smarter than it actually is.

-- Greg

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