[Pythonmac-SIG] psyco illegal hardware instruction

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Jeremy Gore wrote:

> I've been encountering strange illegal hardware errors with psyco.
> As far as I can tell, it doesn't like print statements (!) or raising
> to powers in my bound functions.  I had seen about the powers issue,
> but print?  That's news to me.  I use a MacBook Pro with the
> pythonmac prebuilt universal python and psyco.
>
> Any hope this will be fixed?  The psyco speed increases are a godsend
> for my purposes.  I can work around it but it's kind of a pain.

psyco does not work correctly on OS X. There are previous threads  
discussing why (it's a stack alignment issue). Fixing it is not easy.

-bob