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by thadeus_venture 5421 days ago
Have you ever heard Guido speak about the issue? He and a number of others don't think it's one worth solving. Really.

Yea it may be a lot of work to create a new GC implementation and change the threading model, but if you want the language to progress that's the way forward.
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irahul 5421 days ago
> Have you ever heard Guido speak about the issue?

Yes.

> He and a number of others don't think it's one worth solving. Really.

Check your claims.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=214235 http://docs.python.org/faq/library#can-t-we-get-rid-of-the-g...

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rbanffy 5420 days ago
More threads sharing the same data gives rise to all kinds of difficult to track synchronization bugs.

The share-nothing multi-process approach Python encourages feels good enough for me.

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