Is Stackless Python DEAD?

Frederic Giacometti frederic.giacometti at arakne.com
Sun Nov 4 21:13:00 EST 2001


"Martin von Loewis" <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote in message
news:j4zo6cixu2.fsf at informatik.hu-berlin.de...
> "Bruce Dodson" <bruce_dodson at bigfoot.com> writes:
>
> > Would Stackless have a better chance of making it into the core if its
> > initial PEP talked only about increasing performance and removing limits
on
> > recursion?
>
> No. It is not the feature set that prevents its incorporation; it is
> the implementation strategy chosen. The patch is too intrusive.

'intrusive'?
This words seems to point out that the actual reason is not technical...
This is definitely not a word from the realm of engineering, but more from
someone sense of his core self being disturbed by an outsider.

Am I right ?

FG






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