Stackless 3.0 alpha 1 at blinding speed

Christian Tismer tismer at tismer.com
Sat Apr 19 00:05:33 EDT 2003


Mike Rovner wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message
> 
> 
>>>Is there a short way to say why Guido didn't want continuations?
>>
>>He didn't like the implementation strategy; I believe he was neutral
>>about the feature per se.
> 
> 
> Second that.
> AFAIK one of the points was/is the ability to implement it in Jython,
> which is/was impossible while you are mangling with C stack frames.

Stackless 1.0 did continuations without mangling C stack frames.
I still don't see how this is unimplementable in Jython, especially
with the existing generators, which are dong something limited but
similar.

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