PDF parser

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Jul 30 10:03:19 EDT 2004


Christopher T King <squirrel at WPI.EDU> writes:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
> > With Bytecodehacks, I can make Psyco support generators,
> > by applying code transformations which turn the yield
> > statement into something different, but semantical
> > identical.
> > The goal is to have things both fast and nicely readable.
> 
> Wouldn't the ideal solution be to make Psyco support generators
> natively?

Yes.  You make it sounds easy, though.

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that amount to no more than some C
> stack trickery (i.e. pop the stack used by the current function, store it
> & the current IP into the generator structure, return to caller)?

No, it's harder than that.  How much do you know about how psyco works?

Cheers,
mwh

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