<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">As Jacob mentioned, I worked on fixing Stackless Pickling.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I thought this would be a quick thing for the first morning, but</DIV><DIV>it blocked me very much until the end of the sprint, where</DIV><DIV>a discussion with Samuele clarified to us (we both didn't</DIV><DIV>understand it for quite long).</DIV><DIV>The problem holds for any app-level implementation of any</DIV><DIV>switching concept that should be pickled:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Unless you implement this very ugly with global variables, only,</DIV><DIV>you will always have a reference to the tasklet/whatever on the</DIV><DIV>python stack, that tries to do the pickling. I.E. you always end up pickling</DIV><DIV>the pickler itself, in principal.</DIV><DIV>This does not happen from the main tasklet, because it has special</DIV><DIV>handing for that case.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This needs to be re-thought. Some special code, somewhat similar to</DIV><DIV>resume points in RPython needs to be implemented, to shortcut</DIV><DIV>the frames on the Python stack which should not be visible (and</DIV><DIV>therefore being pickled) at all.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hoping to be more productive and communicative next time - this was a huge blocker.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>ciao - chris<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Christian Tismer :^) <<A href="mailto:tismer@stackless.com">mailto:tismer@stackless.com</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* <A href="http://starship.python.net">http://starship.python.net</A>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">14109 Berlin : PGP key -> <A href="http://wwwkeys.pgp.net">http://wwwkeys.pgp.net</A>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 05</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> whom do you want to sponsor today? <A href="http://www.stackless.com">http://www.stackless.com</A>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>