[Python-3000] Futures in Python 3000

[Aurélien Campéas]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:59:43PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Andy Sy wrote:
> 
> > Does this mean that Py3K intends to reuse major portions of
> > Python 2.x's implementation?
> 
> I expect that almost all of it will be reused.
> 

Couldn't PyPy be considered an interesting contender ?

> The difficulty with improving on the current generator
> model is that the only way to do any better is to use
> full coroutines. That means either using threads (which
> you can do now if you want), or turning the whole
> implementation inside-out in the manner of the original
> Stackless, which would break all existing C extensions
> and force writers of future extensions to use a very
> convoluted API.

Sorry to jump in like this, but what about the *current* stackless ?
Does it also break all existing C extensions ... ? (I guess I should
do my homework and ask the stackless people, but ...)

> 
> If there were any easy way to improve generators, it
> would already have been done by now.
> 
> --
> Greg
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