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Episode 18: Reference Counting

· 1 h 39 min · Season 1 Episode 18

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After we talked about memory allocation in Python back in Episode 16, we're ready to complain, uh, explain reference counting. Or at least throw a bunch of reference counting facts at you. Plus a big assortment of recent Python changes. You ready?

## Timestamps

(00:00:00) INTRO

(00:04:17) PART 0: SPORTS NEWS

(00:06:53) PART 1: REFERENCE COUNTING

(00:08:28) New segment of 2025

(00:13:54) C++ is asymptotic Python

(00:15:37) Is Rust game yet?

(00:18:01) Names

(00:20:25) Breaking the law

(00:23:08) sys.getrefcount()

(00:25:21) Pedantic Pablo

(00:26:06)…

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