On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote: > > > I'm a little disappointed that it will be so difficult for people to > > > test with GC on, but I'm not going to claim that there is some easy way > > > to make it a runtime option because I haven't looked at it at all. There > > > probably isn't. > > > > There isn't. With an interpreter compiled --with-cycle-gc you can > > turn off the collection with gc.set_threshold(0) but that's not > > the same thing. > > > > Neil > > I wonder if we should turn this option *on* during beta testing? > > That way we gather a lot more experience with its use! Maybe nobody > complains and we can leave it on in the final release... That presumes an adequate number of testers and a wide variety of deployment/usage scenarios. Given the relatively short timeframe, that may be a bit aggressive. I *do* agree with enabling it during the beta. But I'm just not sure about leaving it on. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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