[GiNaC-list] Python wrapper for a GiNaC derived library

Richard B. Kreckel kreckel at ginac.de
Sat Aug 5 00:56:09 CEST 2006


Hi!

Sheplyakov Alexei wrote:

>2) As a matter of fact, using general-purpose conservative GC prevents
>   one from solving any real-world problems (see Mathematica).
>  
>

Actually, Mathematica objects are reference counted. (Section A.9.2 
"Data Structures and Memory Management" of the Mathematica 5.2 
Documentation says, that "Every piece of memory used by Mathematica 
maintains a count of how many times it is referenced. Memory is 
automatically freed when this count reaches zero.")

Regards
  -richy.

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