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0 pointsghostwriter6y ago0 comments

> Python's reference counting mechanism will cause everything to be copied anyway.

isn't it CPython specific though, and may not be observed when running on PyPy?

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dfox6y ago

It is. And in practice it is far from everything, only stuff that is actively directly referenced by the service code.

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