[Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sun Oct 26 07:47:08 CET 2008


Greg Ewing wrote:
> A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> 
>> A stray thought: does using a generator for the VM make life easier
>> for the Stackless Python developers in any way?  Does it make it
>> possible for stock CPython to become stackless?
> 
> I doubt it. A major barrier to stacklessness is that
> a lot of extension modules would need to be rewritten
> in a completely different way. Just changing the VM
> isn't going to make a difference to that.

That's obviously a problem, but it only answers the second question, not the
first one.

Stefan



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