Stackless Platform Independence?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Frederic> Just reverse the paradigm: have the python VM run in a single
    Frederic> thread, using stackless microthreads for python
    Frederic> multithreading, and run the C calls in a pool of threads.
    Frederic> This way: no lock is needed, since only one thread runs the
    Frederic> VM, with the help of microthreads, and C calls run in other
    Frederic> threads.

I don't think this will work without a lot of effort.  There is code that is
not strictly speaking part of the virtual machine that assumes the presence
of the global interpreter lock.

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Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)