[Python-Dev] Memory bitmaps for the Python cyclic garbage collector (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 8 19:49:52 EDT 2017
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Tim Peters wrote:
In that case, it's because Python does mutate the objects' refcount members under the covers, and so the OS ends up making fresh copies of the memory anyway.
Has anyone ever considered addressing that by moving the refcounts out of the objects and keeping them somewhere else?
-- Greg
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