Stackless Python, eventual merge?

[Christian Tismer]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>>That is not true. It is more reliable to inspect the source code.
>>>In general, it is very easy to do so: if there are no callbacks to
>>>Python, the module is stackless-safe.
>>
>>So win32all probably wxPython are incompatible with stackless?
> 
> 
> No. If a module has callbacks, it is thread safe if it does not put
> data on the stack whose addresses are used outside the function, and
> it does not use setjmp, and it does not use exception handling.

Maybe sufficient for not crashing on the C level.
But this is not enough for micro-thread-safety.
See the random module for example, it needs a lock
or it will give unpredictable results.

ciao - chris

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