contrib/win32/postinstall.txt
author Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>
Sat, 21 May 2022 23:31:30 +0200
changeset 49232 4c57ce494a4e
parent 26421 4b0fc75f9403
permissions -rw-r--r--
worker: stop relying on garbage collection to release memoryview On CPython, before resizing the bytearray, all memoryviews referencing it must be released. Before this change, we ensured that all references to them were deleted. On CPython, this was enough to set the reference count to zero, which results in garbage collecting and releasing them. On PyPy, releasing the memoryviews is not necessary because they are implemented differently. If it would be necessary however, ensuring that all references are deleted would not be suffient because PyPy doesn’t use reference counting. By using with statements that take care of releasing the memoryviews, we ensure that the bytearray is resizable without relying on implementation details. So while this doesn’t fix any observable bug, it increases compatiblity with other and future Python implementations.

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