Dec. 28, 2012
3:45 p.m.
On 27/12/12 15:10, Nick Coghlan wrote: Hi,
This PEP proposes that CPython move to an explicit 2-phase initialisation
Why only two phases? I was thinking about the initialisation sequence a while ago and thought that a three or four phase sequence might be appropriate. What matters is that the state in between phases is well defined and simple to understand. You might want to take a look at rubinius which implements most of its core components in Ruby, so needs a clearly defined startup sequence. http://rubini.us/doc/en/bootstrapping/ (Rubinius using 7 phases, but that would be overkill for CPython) Cheers, Mark.