[Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:50 AM 10/25/2008 -0400, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:33:23PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> > Maybe not, but at least you can follow what it's doing
> > just by knowing C. Introducing vmgen would introduce another
> > layer for the reader to learn about.
>
>A stray thought: does using a generator for the VM make life easier
>for the Stackless Python developers in any way?  Does it make it
>possible for stock CPython to become stackless?

Dunno about that, but I do know that having stack effect info for the 
bytecode could help with things like bytecode verification (without 
having to define a bunch of magic constants that duplicate 
information from the innards of ceval.c).