Generators versus Coroutines

[Michael Hudson]

Nick Patavalis <npat at efault.net> writes:

> What!?! CPython uses the *C-stack* !!?!?! Is there a reason for this?

It's easy enough to make Python calling Python not use the C stack.
For all the zillion ways you can go Python -> some C -> Python, well,
that's not so easy.  One of the Python implementations advantages is
it's relative transparency.

Cheers,
mwh

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