Stackless/microthreads merge news

Christian Tismer tismer at tismer.com
Wed May 10 14:50:12 EDT 2000


Jeff Senn wrote:
...

> In past days I've explored many of these issues myself -- some of it
> in research that has never seen the light of day (so I'm either a lazy
> bastard too or just have too much to do :-) ) -- my best guess is that
> Python is as close as anything I've seen to being the right balance of
> language features and power with user-accesibility -- the VM
> implementation is quite good/simple and Chris's stackless makes it
> even better -- and if only I could run the core of it on a small, raw
> microprocessor with modest memory (or a SmartCard ... or even my
> Palm!) I believe it would take over the world.

FYI I'm considering this stuff quite a while now.
The goal is something tiny, that breaks both the
VM and the C API into small pieces. The limits
between both will vanish, and both will be interpreted
by some tiny, FORTH-like interpreter. This goes
towards a threaded Python implementation.
So far for the compact side.
For the fast side, we can expand code sequences and
generate machine code on the fly. Size versus speed
should become a runtime option.

Forgot to mention the split of VM and language...
...well, more on this later - have to go to the cinema - chris

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