Introducing Immortal Objects for Python
Introducing Immortal Objects for Python
engineering.fb.com Introducing Immortal Objects for Python
Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects – PEP-683 – to Python. Now, objects can bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime, unlocking exciting avenues f…
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Can't this result in ugly memory leaks?
@Sternout @jnovinger
Maybe, but (apart from the "Accidental Immortalisation" case mentioned in PEP 683) these things are created deliberately by C extensions.
A sane extension shouldn't be building loads of them on the fly in the first place.