Garbage Collection in Python

Presentation will start with the brief introduction about Garbage collection and its necessities, how Garbage collection is done in other languages, how it is different in python.Next part of the presentation deals with the Garbage collection algorithm used in python in earlier days and their pitfalls. Presentation will take us through the various garbage collection algorithm suitable for python with their pros and cons and arrive at some sort of conclusion saying the best suited Garbage collection algorithm for python. This Presentation gives more importance to python's reference counting technique and this section involves python's inability to solve the entire problem and implementation of few more techniques to solve those issues.

• Brief Introduction about Garbage collection
• Necessity for Garbage collection
• Techniques(Algorithms) most widely used
• Reference counting technique
• Ineffectiveness of Reference counting technique
• More techniques for efficient Garbage collection
• How Garbage collection can be handled better?

It is only few months back that I entered into the world of python and worried a lot about missing such a great language for past few years. I want to explore more in the world of python. This opportunity can fulfill my expectations atleast to certain extent. I can not prepare a detailed proposal here because of time constraint but given a chance I will be able to bring in more details to the presentation.

I am graduated from Department of Computer science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai in May, 2010. After my graduation I have joined with Ankeena Networks,a Juniper company in Chennai and working as a Software Engineer – QA.