In the Python documentation on Extending and Embedding (in section
1.10), there's a quote:
"Maybe some day a sufficiently portable automatic garbage collector
will be available for C. Until then, we'll have to live with reference
counts."
What about the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector (at http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/)?
They state, "The collector is not completely portable, but the
distribution includes ports to most standard PC and UNIX/Linux
platforms. The collector should work on Linux, *BSD, recent Windows
versions, MacOS X, HP/UX, Solaris, Tru64, Irix and a few other
operating systems. Some ports are more polished than others."
That's not bad! :)
The license also looks good, and it states, "Both space and time
overhead are likely to be only slightly higher for programs written
for malloc/free."
--Nick 9  1472 
I think it had been done in the
1.5 or 1.4 days....
I therefore assume it did not
work quite as advertised.
Probably memory consumption is
much higher and less deterministic
than with reference counting.
PLT scheme seems to use this
garbage collector and it
consumes 40-50 MB, but including
GUI with editing and interactive
shell.
Maybe someone else who knows more
about this topic can comment or
give reference
ciao,
Dominic
ni***********@y ahoo.com (Nick Jacobson) writes: In the Python documentation on Extending and Embedding (in section
1.10), there's a quote:
"Maybe some day a sufficiently portable automatic garbage collector
will be available for C. Until then, we'll have to live with reference
counts."
What about the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector (at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/)?
It's been tried, with unspectacular results. Google can probably find
more gory details.
They state, "The collector is not completely portable, but the
distribution includes ports to most standard PC and UNIX/Linux
platforms. The collector should work on Linux, *BSD, recent Windows
versions, MacOS X, HP/UX, Solaris, Tru64, Irix and a few other
operating systems. Some ports are more polished than others."
Python has been ported to the Palm Pilot, Nokia Series 60, VMS,
Amiga...
Cheers,
mwh
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> > What about the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector (at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/)?
It's been tried, with unspectacular results.
What's been tried? I was suggesting using this garbage collector to
avoid the need for reference counting when writing C extensions. Has
that been tried? And if so, what do you mean by "unspectacular" ?
Google can probably find
more gory details.
Searching Google for what exactly? :P They state, "The collector is not completely portable, but the
distribution includes ports to most standard PC and UNIX/Linux
platforms. The collector should work on Linux, *BSD, recent Windows
versions, MacOS X, HP/UX, Solaris, Tru64, Irix and a few other
operating systems. Some ports are more polished than others."
Python has been ported to the Palm Pilot, Nokia Series 60, VMS,
Amiga...
Cheers,
mwh
That's true. But the need for a few more ports shouldn't sink the
idea completely..
Thanks for the reply,
--Nick
[Nick Jacobson] What about the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector (at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/)?
[Michael Hudson] It's been tried, with unspectacular results.
[Nick] What's been tried?
Using BDW with Python, by several people over a span of years.
I was suggesting using this garbage collector to avoid the need for reference
counting when writing C extensions. Has that been tried?
Right.
And if so, what do you mean by "unspectacular" ?
Crashes and slowdowns.
Google can probably find more gory details.
Searching Google for what exactly? :P
Start with
Python Boehm
Tim Peters <ti********@gma il.com> writes: [Nick Jacobson] [...] what do you mean by "unspectacular" ?
Crashes and slowdowns.
Sounds spectacular to me :-)
Tim Peters <ti********@gma il.com> writes: [Nick Jacobson] What about the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector (at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/)?
[Michael Hudson] It's been tried, with unspectacular results.
[Nick] What's been tried?
Using BDW with Python, by several people over a span of years.
I was suggesting using this garbage collector to avoid the need for reference
counting when writing C extensions. Has that been tried?
Right.
And if so, what do you mean by "unspectacular" ?
Crashes and slowdowns.
Were there crashes? I don't remember that bit...
Cheers,
mwh
--
(ps: don't feed the lawyers: they just lose their fear of humans)
-- Peter Wood, comp.lang.lisp
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:03:32PM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote: Were there crashes? I don't remember that bit...
If the GC cannot find all roots then it will free memory that's
still used. I think the _tkinter module had some problems and
perhaps readline as well.
Neil
Tim Peters <ti********@gma il.com> writes: [mwh, on using BDW in Python] Were there crashes? I don't remember that bit...
That came out of the best-analyzed attempt to use BDW in Python (Neil
Schemenauer's, about 5 years ago). Long thread starting here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...ly/007623.html
Oh right. They seem to have been fixed without too much pain, though.
Interesting thread, from a historical perspective...
Cheers.
mwh
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