Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Brian Haskin]

Just van Rossum wrote:
> 
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> >
> > Brent Fulgham <brent.fulgham at xpsystems.com> wrote:
> > > Has any thought been given to making the generic Python
> > > use the Stackless implementation?
> >
> > definitely!
> >
> > personally, I hope that microthreads will be stackless
> > Python's true killer app, and that we will see a merge
> > in 1.7.  but that's me ;-)
> 
> Let me second that... I read the microthread document, and I'm very
> impressed indeed.
> 
> Apparently one of Guido's doubts about stackless is that it seems
> impossible (or merely hard?) to replicate in JPython. Personally I think
> it would be a shame if the limitations of one particular Python
> implementation imposes restrictions on others. After all, JPython
> implemented features that are hard to implement in CPython, so why
> should CPython's development be held back because of JPython?
> 
> I want stackless in 1.6...
> 
> Just

Ditto. Although I have a feeling getting stackless into 1.6 would be
just a 'little' difficult.

Brian Haskin