This sounds awesome! Great work! Thanks!
On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Christian Tismer wrote: > Hi friends, > > I am right now in Reykjavik, working on Stackless and Psyco > for CCPgames. http://www.ccpgames.com > They want a 64 bit version of Psyco, and I had to do some > prototyping of stackless/psyco collaboration, to see if > it makes sense at all. I think I got this done so far. > > Try out Stackless with Psyco!!! > ------------------------------- > > Stackless is unchanged, Psyco was enhanced to work with > all versions of Stackless. Right now, psyco for stackless > is sitting in a private subfolder on codespeak. This is > only intermediate, psyco.org will be the main site soon. > > If you checked out psyco before, you only need to > > svn update > > and you will find a 'private' subfolder. It contains > the not yet published norman project with all the changes > from last year, and the new stackless support. > > For first checkout, use this: > > svn checkout http://codespeak.net/svn/psyco/v2/private/norman > > build it with setup.py, or add the supplied project file > to your Visual Studio solution. In order to set it up > without an extra directory, you can copy the py-support > folder, renaming it to psyco. Adjust your python path, > to include the directory that contains the psyco folder. > > Compatibility > ------------- > > - No softswitching > > Stackless Psyco does not work with softswitching. You can > enable it, but psyco will do all compilation with > softswitching suppressed. That is, you loose the ability > to pickle tasklets when psyco is active. This will be > improved in the future. Stackless will grow a new > switching mode that is supported by psyco. > > - become and capture > > After you import psyco, the methods tasklet.become and tasklet.capture > become useless. They are changed into > > D:\ccp\2.5\PCbuild8>lib\VC90.SP1\Win32\python_d.exe > Python 2.5.3a0 Stackless 3.1b3 060516 (release25-maint, Apr 16 2010, > 00:14:17) [ > MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import psyco, stackless > [34782 refs] > >>> stackless.tasklet.become > NotImplemented > [34784 refs] > >>> > > Ideally, I would have removed these methods. They are going away, > and they are nearly impossible to support in Psyco. But it is > not possible, because Stackless uses flextype, a different > approach to make builtin bethods efficiently overridable. > This was years before the descriptor protocol was introduced. > flextype will go away, but until then, it needs to stay so. > > - cframes > > I had to tell psyco about cframes, because they show up in > the Stackless generator implementation. cframes are going away, > too. They were introduced as a speed boost. But speed is > the domain of psyco, and everything written in Python > will get sped up for free. > > Future > ------ > Stackless will gradually morph away in a more compatible way, > and eventually become an extension module like Psyco. This > is a long path to go. It will grow a new switching mode that > is soft, but requires no rewrite of the core functions. > This switching mode will get full psyco support and acceleration. > > Psyco will support 64 bit. Not sure under what license, yet ;-) > > stay tuned -- chris > > -- > > Christian Tismer :^)<mailto:[email protected]> > tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's > Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ > 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ > work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 05 > PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 > whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Stackless mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless > _______________________________________________ Stackless mailing list [email protected] http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless
