[pypy-dev] Tealets Re: Stackless work

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

On 05/23/2011 04:11 PM, Andrew Francis wrote:
> Hi Da_Blitz:
>
> --- On Sat, 5/21/11, Da_Blitz<pypy at pocketnix.org>  wrote:
>
>> keeping this one short and simple
>>
>> I am interested in using JIT enabled stackless with pypy (obviously
>> a feature that doesn't exist). i have been playing with the
>> coroutines interface (which i am finding nicer to work with than
>> tasklets) but don't have the skill to pull of the stackless work
>>
>> it has been suggested that pypy devs are willing to work on paid
>> for features. so if anyone is interested in doing work on stackless
>> and being paid for it please feel free to get in touch of me so we
>> can discuss it (either on irc or via email)
>>
>> there isnt a deadline for compleation of this feature, just me
>> wanting to throw a firecracker at someone to at the very least get
>> it started
>
> Well Da_Blitz, a few months ago, there was talk on creating what I
> believe Christian told me are "tealets"(I think Armin came up with
> the term and Maciej the concept). This would be a quick way to get
> the JIT to work with greenlets under the hood. This would not be as
> powerful as if one could get the stackless transform to work with the
> JIT (i.e., no pickling).

The last bit is no longer true. I started refactoring pickling on the 
branch unpickle-frames so that they can work also with tealets.

Carl Friedrich