Stackless Platform Independence?

[David Bolen]

Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:

> [Christian Tismer]
> > As you might have noticed, Stackless has changed quite
> > much:
> >  - Platform independence is gone.
> 
> [Christopher Browne]
> > I hope not...  I would hope to hear that "platform indepedence has
> > _ARRIVED_"
> 
> No, he meant what he said.  All the good changes are bought at the cost of
> needing some platform-specific assembler, to transform the platform C stack
> from an Insurmountable Obstacle into just another piece of manipulable
> state.

And given that it's a relatively small piece of the overall puzzle, it
need not be much more of a headache to maintain than the various
platform specific pieces inside the Python core are (e.g., the
threading portions).  Probably less, since I expect CPUs and/or things
with impact on the stack switching may change less frequently than
OS/platforms.  In any case, it seems like it's worth the tradeoff,
especially if it makes it Python version independent (or easily
trackable).

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