[pypy-dev] Questions for Armin
Armin Rigo
arigo at tunes.org
Sun Jan 19 19:50:28 CET 2003
Hello Bengt,
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:25:52PM -0800, Bengt Richter wrote:
> I'm also picking this place to re-introduce the related
> "checkpointing" idea, namely some call into a builtin that
> can act like a yield and save all the state that the
> compiler/psyco etc have worked up.
This might probably be done without Psyco, and would certainly be a nice thing
to have. Note that a good Psyco could remove any need for it: most
initialization code could theoretically be specialized into something that
just creates the necessary data structures without executing any code at all.
Sometimes I like to point out that if our OS were written in a high-level
language with built-in specializers, they would boot in no more than the time
it takes to do the actual I/O that occurs when booting (mainly displaying the
login screen and waiting for mouse, keyboard and network input) --- everything
else is internal state and can be done lazily.
A bientot,
Armin.
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