11 Feb
2004
11 Feb
'04
11:45 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:27:14AM -0800, Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
I don't think this is a problem; you can usually
turn off
the GC during time-critical code, and in most cases, such code
is in C anyway (handled via a foreign function interface), and
at least in normal use, you're in control at that level.
I don't know about other garbage-collected languages, but
there is no way to temporarily disable GC in Python,
nor any way to force it to run at a particular time.
Besides, modern hardware is far faster than people
seem to
realize, and modern GC's don't spend much time on a sweep.
Gad, now I'll have to go and run some tests...
That would be interesting.
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