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
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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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