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For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage C...
Python still uses mark and sweep occasionally to clean up structures where reference counting fails.
mailslot
on May 9, 2019
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It has optional cycle detection, yep. But... you could also just spend a couple of minutes to not have cyclic references.
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Closures are objects that can participate in cycles. And the lifetime of closures is very hard to track statically.
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They are and they should be used responsibly. I’d argue sparingly also.
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"A couple of minutes"
Just a
little bit
overconfident.
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