Christian Heimes wrote: > Pardon my ignorance but why does Python do reference counting for truly > global and static objects
Because it would cost more time to check whether the reference counting needed to be done than to just do it anyway. Remember that *most* refcount operations are on non-global objects. Putting in a test would slow all of them down, but only speed a few of them up. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
