PyPy test status

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Wed Dec 23 01:24:15 CST 2015


On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Regarding the patches around resource leaks, given PyPy doesn't share
> CPython's refcount-based behavior of freeing resources immediately when
> they go out of scope, do you think we should start mass converting file
> handles, locks, transactions, etc to context managers (or at least
> try..finally) to mitigate undiscovered bugs around object lifetimes?


Yes, that would make sense. I don't think there's a big rush simply because
I don't understand where PyPy stands with respect to performance yet, but
the need clearly exists.
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