[Python-Dev] Ann: Stackless technology merge under the way

[Christian Tismer]

Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hello Christian,
> 
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
>>Stackless is changing heavily, once again.
> 
> 
> Good news.  It might be worth pointing out that even if continuations are
> not directly supported, it should be possible to do them with thread
> pickling.  Unpickling a given thread state several times does the trick.

This is correct.
Actually, re-enabling continuations would not be *that*
problem. What it needs it a copy-on-write like wrapper
around frames, to make them duplicate when necessary.
But I really don't want to go this path again,
last but not least to avoid giving Guido an argument :-)

a man cannot step into the same river twice -- chris

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