On 16.04.13 23:35, Carlos Eduardo de Paula wrote:
Hello everyone,
I've been following the PyPy progress for some time and recently saw
that PyPy 2.0 (currently in beta2) already supports Stackless features
integrated with the JIT so it can have good performance using both
features.
I tested a couple scripts I had and most of them works. The ones that
does not work are related to recursion but my tests are far from
comprehensive.
I see this as good news since PyPy progress has been great in the last
years.
http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/release-2.0.0-beta2.html
Hi Carlos,
no wonder that you get problems with recursion.
PyPy's support for Stackless is usable for concurrency, but
different, since PyPy never adopted the way Stackless avoids the
Stack and with no "soft-switching".
It is more like greenlets that led to the tealet which is meanwhile
a stacklet (based upon the continulet...), but effectively the stack
is still in use.
The difference is a bit hard to explain:
In Stackless, the pickleable program state needs collaborative multitasking,
and this happens in all cases where no stack is in the way.
When "hard-switching" is done, the piece of stack to move around is an
opaque
structure that we cannot inspect and pickle, yet.
In PyPy, no "soft-switching" ever occurs, it all looks more like
"hard-switching",
i.E. the interpreter is forced into another context by stack copying.
But in contrast to Stackless, because all existing structures come from
PyPy, even those structures can be introspected and (theoretycally)
pickled. I'm not sure if that is implemented, yet.
You can read more about Stackless features in PyPy here:
http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/stackless.html
cheers - chris
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