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author | Atul Varma <varmaa@toolness.com> |
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date | Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:37:29 -0700 |
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--- a/docs/rendered/index.html Sun Aug 09 15:18:33 2009 -0700 +++ b/docs/rendered/index.html Sun Aug 09 15:37:29 2009 -0700 @@ -123,12 +123,14 @@ pymonkey can be really usable. Here’s some of them.</p> <p><strong>Garbage Collection</strong></p> <p>Python’s garbage collection uses reference counting, whereas -SpiderMonkey’s is mark-and-sweep. We’ll likely run into situations -where there are cycles that exist between SpiderMonkey and Python -objects; this is actually quite similar to the relationship between -XPCOM and JavaScript in the Mozilla platform–XPCOM uses reference -counting too–so detecting such cycles will probably involve creating -something akin to <a class="reference" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Interfacing_with_the_XPCOM_cycle_collector">XPCOM’s cycle collector</a>.</p> +SpiderMonkey’s is mark-and-sweep. It’s possible for there to be +situations where there are cycles that exist between SpiderMonkey and +Python objects; this is actually quite similar to the relationship +between XPCOM and JavaScript in the Mozilla platform–XPCOM uses +reference counting too–so detecting such cycles will probably involve +creating something akin to <a class="reference" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Interfacing_with_the_XPCOM_cycle_collector">XPCOM’s cycle collector</a>.</p> +<p>For the time being, however, such cycles can be manually broken via +<a title="pymonkey.Context.clear_object_private" class="reference" href="pymonkey.html#pymonkey.Context.clear_object_private"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">pymonkey.Context.clear_object_private()</span></tt></a> on valid objects and functions.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="indices-and-tables"> <h2>Indices and Tables<a class="headerlink" href="#indices-and-tables" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h2>