Stackless Python, eventual merge?

Greg Ewing see_reply_address at something.invalid
Tue Sep 17 20:51:22 EDT 2002


Michael Chermside wrote:

>  (4) Stackless works on some architechures (including at least X86,
>      Sparc, PPC and Cygwin). But it does NOT work on some other
>      architectures. So (rather like the thread package) it is not
>      as portable as Python itself.


Also, I believe that, even on the supported
architectures, it plays dangerous tricks with
the C stack. I'd prefer to see that fixed
before making it a standard part of the
distribution.


-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg




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