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| author | Sam Gross <colesbury@gmail.com> | 2024-01-25 18:27:36 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-01-25 18:27:36 (GMT) |
| commit | b52fc70d1ab3be7866ab71065bae61a03a28bfae (patch) | |
| tree | f364d714c70229ad70b6138aac6181d1ee375363 /Misc | |
| parent | 4850410b60183dac021ded219a49be140fe5fefe (diff) | |
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gh-112529: Implement GC for free-threaded builds (#114262)
* gh-112529: Implement GC for free-threaded builds
This implements a mark and sweep GC for the free-threaded builds of
CPython. The implementation relies on mimalloc to find GC tracked
objects (i.e., "containers").
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-01-18-20-20-37.gh-issue-112529.oVNvDG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-01-18-20-20-37.gh-issue-112529.oVNvDG.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3aa438 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-01-18-20-20-37.gh-issue-112529.oVNvDG.rst @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The free-threaded build now has its own thread-safe GC implementation that +uses mimalloc to find GC tracked objects. It is non-generational, unlike the +existing GC implementation. |