Message 68376 - Python tracker

Message68376

Author	amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients	Rhamphoryncus, amaury.forgeotdarc, jnoller, roudkerk, theller
Date	2008-06-18.22:03:03
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In-reply-to	<1213810657.59.0.0655414271964.issue3125@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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roudkerk wrote: > Yes, on Windows pickling is needed to pass data to a child process. In > other contexts these objects are NOT picklable because you would have to > worry about garbage collection of the original object before the copy is > rebuilt by the other process. On unix pickling will always fail even if > it "if win32" statement was removed. I am not sure to understand. Can you elaborate? How is memory management different between windows and unix?

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roudkerk wrote:
> Yes, on Windows pickling is needed to pass data to a child process.  In
> other contexts these objects are NOT picklable because you would have to
> worry about garbage collection of the original object before the copy is
> rebuilt by the other process.  On unix pickling will always fail even if
> it "if win32" statement was removed.

I am not sure to understand. Can you elaborate?
How is memory management different between windows and unix?

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