On 6/28/06, Trent Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not yet; as of right now I just want a coherent security model since this whole idea is dead in the water without it. But I do know that interpreters are basically execution stack, a new sys module, and a new sys.modules. It isn't horrendously heavy. And C extension modules are shared between them.
-BrettBrett Cannon wrote:
> > > The idea is that there be a separate Python interpreter per web
> > > browser page instance.
>
> > I think there may be scaling issues there. _javascript_ isn't doing that
> > is it, do you know? As well, that doesn't seem like it would translate
> > well to sharing execution between separate chrome windows in a
> > non-browser XUL/Mozilla-based app.
>
> And if you don't think it is going to scale, how do you think it should
> be done?
That was an ignorant response (I haven't read what you've suggested and
really though about it). Sorry for the unsubstantiated babbling.
To Bob's question on how much interpreter state *is* there: I don't
know. Have you done any measuring of that, Brett?
Not yet; as of right now I just want a coherent security model since this whole idea is dead in the water without it. But I do know that interpreters are basically execution stack, a new sys module, and a new sys.modules. It isn't horrendously heavy. And C extension modules are shared between them.
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