[Python-3000] Stackless anyone ?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:25 AM 9/19/2007 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>Talin wrote:
> > the ultimate solution to Python concurrency won't be via patching
> > CPython, but to compile the meta-Python language to a back-end
> > representation that is inherently  concurrent.
>
>You can't get something for nothing, though -- that
>"inherently concurrent" back-end representation will
>have to deal with all the same issues one way or
>another.

Right, but since you can write PyPy "C" extensions in RPython, the 
part you actually get for "free" is that PyPy extensions don't need 
to be written so as to take concurrency into account.  Those bits can 
be delegated to the "object space", in PyPy terms.