Re: [Pyobjc-dev] ObjC GC with PyObjC?

[Greg E. <gre...@ca...>]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> If I had the time, and funding, I'd much rather work on a port of  
> Python that uses the ObjC garbage collector instead of Python's native  
> memory management.

While that might help PyObjC, I'd be very worried about
what effect it might have on the performance of the rest
of Python.

Also I'm not sure I like the idea of having to use a
special version of Python in order to be able to use
ObjC.

In general, I think that "create a special version of
Python to make X work" is an anti-pattern. Think about
what would happen if everyone did that, and then you
wanted to use X and Y at the same time, where X and Y
each required their own special Python version. It would
be DLL hell on steroids.

-- 
Greg