Stackless python + official python ?

[Michael Hudson]

Pekka Niiranen <krissepu at vip.fi> writes:

> After reading "Continuations and Stackless Python" by Christian
> Tismer I started wondering if there are any plans to merge his
> efforts to official Python release ?

Not at present, I believe.

> Or is it too late because user and application base of the language
> are allready so wide that pure engineering decisions for the
> language development are impossible ?

The original implementation was too intrusive and baroque to be
considered (albeit an amazing bit of work).  The current one relies on
assembly tricks; it's unlikely that such things would be tolerated in
the core.

For much more on the subject, feel free to hit google.

Cheers,
M.

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