"For another, conventional wisdom holds that reference counting and "pure garbage collection" (his term for mark and sweep) are roughly equivalent performance-wise, but the performance impact wouldn't be known until after the change was made, which might make it a hard sell."
AFAIK there exists RC GC's which are performance equivalent to MarkSweep, but these aren't super common out of academia? What is the state of GC performance in python currently?
AFAIK there exists RC GC's which are performance equivalent to MarkSweep, but these aren't super common out of academia? What is the state of GC performance in python currently?