[GRLUG] python app speed

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>Garbage Collection.  In managed platforms like .NET and Java, it's very important to understand if you want to get any kind of performance out of a "large" application.

It matters in 'unmanaged' environments like Objective-C and Python as well (and in PHP, Perl, etc...).    Most of these use reference counting to auto release old objects.   But reference counting can fail in interesting ways,  even assuming there are no bugs in the implementation.  Maybe these are 'quasi-managed' enviroments?

And unmanged C, etc... has GC problems as well - where the GC is the programmer. :)