[Python-Dev] PEP 556: Threaded garbage collection (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Fri Sep 8 15:57:10 EDT 2017


On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:52 PM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 12:40:34 -0700 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote: > > PyPy just abandons everything when shutting down, instead of running > finalizers. See the last paragraph of : > http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cpythondifferences.html#differences-related-to-garbage-collection-strategies > > So that might be a useful source of experience.

CPython can be embedded in applications, though, and that is why we try to be a bit more thorough during the interpreter cleanup phase.

Indeed. My gut feeling is that proposing to not run finalizers on interpreter shutdown is a non-starter and would get the pep rejected. We've previously guaranteed that they were run unless the process dies via an unhandled signal or calls os._exit() in CPython.

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