From c8e8281fb67b13d893c3b8243d345be955a6e672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:46:18 +0000 Subject: Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from Chris Ryland. --- Doc/ref/ref3.tex | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex index dd10e6b..31d8fbb 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex @@ -45,9 +45,12 @@ allowed to postpone garbage collection or omit it altogether --- it is a matter of implementation quality how garbage collection is implemented, as long as no objects are collected that are still reachable. (Implementation note: the current implementation uses a -reference-counting scheme which collects most objects as soon as they -become unreachable, but never collects garbage containing circular -references.) +reference-counting scheme with (optional) delayed detection of +cyclicly linked garbage, which collects most objects as soon as they +become unreachable, but is not guaranteed to collect garbage +containing circular references. See the +\citetitle[../lib/module-gc.html]{Python Library Reference} for +information on controlling the collection of cyclic garbage.) \index{garbage collection} \index{reference counting} \index{unreachable object} -- cgit v0.12