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Mon Nov 3 09:18:13 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-November/083281.html

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Eric Smith wrote:
>
>> I'd gladly trade deterministic destruction (due to reference counting or
>> any other mechanism) for improved performance.
>
> Another thing to consider is that refcounting spreads out the
> time spent doing GC evenly over the execution of the program,
> so that you don't get pauses occurring at random times.
>
> Sometimes in games I've found that I had to disable cyclic
> GC in order to get smooth frame rates. With no refcounting
> I wouldn't have the option of doing that. I'd be disappointed
> if that meant I could no longer use Python for these kinds of
> games.

I consider realtime games to be an essential use case and will be
pursuing incremental GC with my experiments.

-- 
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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