Stackless Python, eventual merge?

[Christian Tismer]

Oren Tirosh wrote:
...

> They may be dangerous in some circumstances. IIRC, if a C extension calls
> the Python interpreter recursively with pointers to things on its stack
> it can cause memory corruption. 

Then don't switch stacks in that context.
The switching occours on your demand.
And if this extension is essential and
must be protected from any overseen switching,
let me add protection code to it. This is easy.

But the theoretical possibility to create a crash
is no reason to dispense with the benefits.

My only chance to do this magic with almost no crash
possibility would be to allocate a new stack for
every new tasklet. I have considered this many times.
A benefit would be reasonably faster switching, while
the drawback would be the reasonable high memory
requirement for a full machine stack.
I might consider a hybrid solution, putting certain
"dangerous" extension stuff into a real new stack
all the time, together with the quite fast and very
cheap other safe tasklets.

Just-need-an-idea-how-to-determine-that - ly y'rs - chris
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