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| From | Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.lisp |
| Subject | Re: Resources to learn common lisp? |
| Date | 2026-06-13 13:09 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87tsr68ao2.fsf@nightsong.com> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <87pl21m1i6.fsf@gmail.com> <1107n17$3k6ea$5@dont-email.me> <865x3sthhu.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org> <87ecie2wj0.fsf@gmail.com> <86zf10sh11.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org> |
Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> writes:
> So I don't see anything preventing a Common Lisp or Java
> implementation from doing reference counting, or a Python
> implementation from _not_ doing reference counting. (what's Jython
> doing after all?)
MicroPython in fact uses GC. I would say that old-style Python de facto
assumed reference counting though. People would write:
def foo():
f = open(filename)
do some stuff
return
and rely on the file getting closed when its handle goes out of scope
and its refcount drops to 0. Python later (version 2.5) added "context
managers" aka the "with" statement, which is a type of RAII for stuff
like that. Basically a block of code wrapped in something like
unwind-protect, that initializes something (like a file handle) at the
beginning, and finalizes it in the cleanup action.
The Scheme standards just say the user program sees the illusion of
infinite memory.
There's a notion in the Python world that reference counting somehow
eliminates GC pauses. Of course that's naive, because of what happens
when a large collection gets released.
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