>It's very easy to see “teaching a GC about fd pressure” as not worth the time and effort for the main runtime GC for a general purpose language. Yes, that's w

>It's very easy to see “teaching a GC about fd pressure” as not worth the time and effort for the main runtime GC for a general purpose language. Yes, that's what I said: >language implementers generally don't care that much about the system interface - they just link against libc and call it done. There's no research done in this area (at least I don't know about any). I'm sure if people cared about it, they would find good solutions. But they mostly don't care about the system interface - which leads to the problems that this article is talking about. (Not that Python is on the fore-front of CS research - it's downstream of more innovative languages - but if those languages cared and had done research about the system interface, they would have come up with good ideas that might flow down to Python)