Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Paul Prescod]

Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
> ...
>
> I've been looking quite closely at their code.
> This is quite a task. Stuff is well written,
> but it is much if you are not used to it.

I have been wondering for a while if it would be possible to merge the
Python interpreter with a Java VM so that Python and JPython themselves
could be merged. I think it would be cool to have a single
implementation with access to all Java classes and all Python extensions
too. That would be the ultimate glue language!

I would guess that the Python compiler would generate JVM byte codes
with a few optimization bytecodes that could be "turned off" to be
compatible with standard byte codes.

> ....  Java
> is explicit about what exceptions can be thrown where,
> and not declaring the right "throws" list is a syntax
> error. 
> ...
> The only thing that could be done is to capture
> continuations, store them in variables and call them
> later. This still gives the stack sharing problems
> which were quite hard to solve for Python.

I don't follow. Isn't it usual to use variables as continuations? I
would expect:

interface continuation{
	public Object apply( Object[] ) throws throwable;
}


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