I like it overall. - I was wondering what happens during interpreter shutdown. I see you have that listed as a open issue. How about simply shutting down the finalization thread and not guaranteeing that finalizers are actually ever run à la Java?
- Why not run all (Python) finalizers on the thread and not just ones from cycles? On Fri, Sep 8, 2017, at 08:05, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > > I've written a PEP by which you can tell the GC to run in a dedicated > thread. The goal is to solve reentrancy issues with finalizers: > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0556/ > > Regards > > Antoine. > > PS: I did not come up with the idea for this PEP while other people > were having nightmares. Any nightmares involved in this PEP are > fictional, and any resemblance to actual nightmares is purely > coincidental. No nightmares were harmed while writing this PEP. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/benjamin%40python.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
