Re: [Python-3000] Practical uses of stackless technology

2006-10-23 Thread Andrew Koenig
> Being technical hacker types, we can cope with describing the ins and > outs of how our code works, but are less sure on the motivations for > stackless-style technologies as used in real-world applications :) Continuations. Which in turn are useful in multiuser interactive applications, among

Re: [Python-3000] Practical uses of stackless technology

2006-10-23 Thread Richard Tew
On 10/23/06, Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > >> Being technical hacker types, we can cope with describing the ins and > >> outs of how our code works, but are less sure on the motivations for > >> stackless-style technologies as used in real-world applications :) > >

Re: [Python-3000] Practical uses of stackless technology

2006-10-23 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Talin wrote: > Maybe the wrong list - but maybe the right discussion. Specifically, > how much of the stackless technology should be adopted in Python3K? Nowadays, I have moved to greenlet. It is a bare-bone implementation of continuations, without channels, schedulers, ecc. It is fine for basi

Re: [Python-3000] Practical uses of stackless technology

2006-10-23 Thread Talin
Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: >> Hi stackless-dev! >> >> As some of you might know, the PyPy project is aiming at including many >> of stackless' features into its Python interpreter. Most of them are now >> implemented and we're now working on the report we are writing fo

Re: [Python-3000] Practical uses of stackless technology

2006-10-23 Thread Carl Friedrich Bolz
Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > Hi stackless-dev! > > As some of you might know, the PyPy project is aiming at including many > of stackless' features into its Python interpreter. Most of them are now > implemented and we're now working on the report we are writing for the > EU about this part of our

[Python-3000] Practical uses of stackless technology

2006-10-23 Thread Carl Friedrich Bolz
Hi stackless-dev! As some of you might know, the PyPy project is aiming at including many of stackless' features into its Python interpreter. Most of them are now implemented and we're now working on the report we are writing for the EU about this part of our work. Being technical hacker types, w

Re: [Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

2006-10-23 Thread Antoine
> I bring this up because I recently (like - today) spent about 8 hours > trying to debug a Python installation problem - and realizing that much > of the reason that installation and deployment infrastructure of Python > programs is so ing complex is because of the poverty of tools like > Make

Re: [Python-3000] Optional type checking for Python

2006-10-23 Thread Jan Grant
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Neil Dunn wrote: > Dear All, > > (I'm forwarding this from the main pydev mailing list) > > I'm a Master's student at Imperial College London currently selecting > a Master's thesis subject. I am exploring the possibility of "optional > typing" and "pluggable type systems" (