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Re: Reference counting garbage collection
by Paul Rubin other posts by this author
Aug 27 2001 12:06PM messages near this date
Re: Tkinter vs. PyQt | RE: Reference counting garbage collection
Eyal Lotem <eyal@[...].com>  writes:
>  > No, and for several reasons.  The most obvious one is that Python runs on
>  > word-addressed machines, where no bits of a pointer are abusable.
>  Unless Python runs a more strict allocation policy (Allocate only 
>  even-numbered dwords, or limit the allocation storage to half the size).

What machines are those anyway?  How do they deal with byte arrays?
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