Shownotes
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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