Stephan Diehl <stephan.diehl@gmx.net> writes:

Hi all,

starting next week, I'll be able again to continue working on pypy. As a part-part-part time worker, I find it a bit difficult to stay on top on what's going on (and what needs to be done).

These are the things, I would continue on, if nobody has a better idea:

- write a python module that exposes Coroutine interface (using greenlets, I suppose). This would be usefull for further development of applevel stackless module. As a sideeffect, the stackless module could then be used with CPython.

Erm, don't we have this part already? Oh, you mean on top of _CPython_, rather than on top of py.py on top of CPython. I guess this would help testing...

- continue work on applevel stackless module and documentation.

This would be good. Samuele pointed out some more stackless examples at: http://members.verizon.net/olsongt/stackless/why_stackless.html It would be nice to add these to the test suite (some of the examples use pygame, so those need to be changed).

Other than that, if I should rather do things like adding docstrings or do other usefull tasks, don't hesitate to tell me :-)

We've just had a quick IRC discussion, and we decided that it would be really nice if you could work on the pre-emptive scheduling mentioned in the description of WP07; this will require adding a hook to the interpreter than is called every few hundred bytecodes, but other than that should mostly be implementable at app level (and the design stolen from stackless CPython, I guess). Cheers, mwh -- <glyph> I am *not* a PSU agent. -- from Twisted.Quotes

Stephan Diehl <stephan.diehl@gmx.net> writes:

Hi all,

starting next week, I'll be able again to continue working on pypy. As a part-part-part time worker, I find it a bit difficult to stay on top on what's going on (and what needs to be done).

These are the things, I would continue on, if nobody has a better idea:

- write a python module that exposes Coroutine interface (using greenlets, I suppose). This would be usefull for further development of applevel stackless module. As a sideeffect, the stackless module could then be used with CPython.

Erm, don't we have this part already? Oh, you mean on top of _CPython_, rather than on top of py.py on top of CPython. I guess this would help testing...

- continue work on applevel stackless module and documentation.

This would be good. Samuele pointed out some more stackless examples at: http://members.verizon.net/olsongt/stackless/why_stackless.html It would be nice to add these to the test suite (some of the examples use pygame, so those need to be changed).

Other than that, if I should rather do things like adding docstrings or do other usefull tasks, don't hesitate to tell me :-)

We've just had a quick IRC discussion, and we decided that it would be really nice if you could work on the pre-emptive scheduling mentioned in the description of WP07; this will require adding a hook to the interpreter than is called every few hundred bytecodes, but other than that should mostly be implementable at app level (and the design stolen from stackless CPython, I guess). Cheers, mwh -- <glyph> I am *not* a PSU agent. -- from Twisted.Quotes