Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Christian Tismer]

Courageous wrote:
...
> Exactly. He didn't even make the python virtual machine stackless
> (he couldn't... it's written in C!), what he did was make python
> frames and their usage within the python interpreted environment
> stackless. Since Mr. Tismer's around, I'm sure he'll comment soon,
> right Christian? :)-

Nod nod. Hmm, there a two source code readers :-)

> > In fact, he commented that making C itself stackless would be too hard
> > to really consider seriously and nobody in the community would
> > appreciate it at all.
> 
> Hey, now take that back! I'd appreciate it whole lots. :)
> 
> But I think you'd have to write a full fledged compiler for this,
> and that *is* a lot of work.

That's the point. Even worse that for Java, and I had to support
many platforms. A way out could be to map C to something else.

Since a longer time, I'm following Peyton Jones' C-- project.
I'm wondering where it will move. The only thing that got
me off from using it is that it depends on Standard ML.
This is too heavy for me, I like it small.

http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/c--.html

ciao - chris

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