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Fri Sep 8 15:04:10 EDT 2017 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-September/149385.html

I like it overall.

- I was wondering what happens during interpreter shutdown. I see you
have that listed as a open issue. How about simply shutting down the
finalization thread and not guaranteeing that finalizers are actually
ever run à la Java?

- Why not run all (Python) finalizers on the thread and not just ones
from cycles?

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017, at 08:05, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've written a PEP by which you can tell the GC to run in a dedicated
> thread.  The goal is to solve reentrancy issues with finalizers:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0556/
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
> 
> PS: I did not come up with the idea for this PEP while other people
> were having nightmares.  Any nightmares involved in this PEP are
> fictional, and any resemblance to actual nightmares is purely
> coincidental.  No nightmares were harmed while writing this PEP.
> 
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[Python-Dev] PEP 556: Threaded garbage collection