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Python slithers into Wesnoth

Python slithers into Wesnoth

Posted Jan 18, 2009 21:29 UTC (Sun) by rwmj (guest, #5474)
In reply to: Python slithers into Wesnoth by zlynx
Parent article: Python slithers into Wesnoth

I'm assuming by "FIVE TIMES" you're referring to this paper. Unfortunately the paper is flawed with respect to reference counting, because it doesn't include the reference counts - it just assumes that the manually managed version "knows" somehow exactly when to free stuff. With ref counts you bloat every object by 4-8 bytes, and of course that has an effect on cache and memory, which they don't measure. You can find a more detailed response here.


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