[Python-Dev] Stackless Python
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Mon May 31 15:06:35 EDT 2004
On May 31, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Shane Holloway (IEEE) wrote:
>> Does this mean that the implementation of Stackless 3.0 could be
>> acceptable to integrate into CPython 2.5? It would be absolutely
>> wonderful to have those capabilities available in the standard
>> distribution!
>
> Probably not. Stackless 3.0 works only on selected hardware; a
> number of platforms currently supported by Python would not be
> supported anymore. An implementation of stackless python should
> work on all platforms (atleast on those currently supported by
> Python).
Although I don't particularly agree with that, because Stackless
functionality could be turned on and off with a platform dependent
configure flag (like threads or unicode)... Is there a canonical list
of CPU architectures and platforms that Python officially supports?
-bob
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