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Disabling the OCaml garbage collector

Raj Bandyopadhyay
- Basile STARYNKEVITCH
  - Raj
    - Alain Frisch
      - Thomas Fischbacher
        
        Raj
    - Thomas Fischbacher
    - Xavier Leroy
      - Raj
        
        Thomas Fischbacher
        
        Raj Bandyopadhyay
        
        Jon Harrop
    - Frédéric_van_der_Plancke
- Thomas Fischbacher

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From:	Frédéric_van_der_Plancke <fvdp@d...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Disabling the OCaml garbage collector

Raj wrote:
> The Python GC is very simple, based on reference counts, hence (I 
> think) it suffices just to make sure that any object has a refcount > 
> 0 to keep the Python GC off.
No, besides doing basic refcounting, the Python GC is also able to 
collect cycles despite of refcount > 0.
I don't know the details you better ask the Python list.

Frédéric