It looks like Instagram's change disabled refcounting too, otherwise they'd stil... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		mkj on Jan 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram It looks like Instagram's change disabled refcounting too, otherwise they'd still be doing copy-on-read for the refcount variable?

zaphar on Jan 18, 2017 [–]

They abandoned that change because it didn't solve their problem.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact