Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

2008-10-25 Thread Stefan Behnel
Greg Ewing wrote: > A.M. Kuchling wrote: > >> A stray thought: does using a generator for the VM make life easier >> for the Stackless Python developers in any way? Does it make it >> possible for stock CPython to become stackless? > > I doubt it. A major barrier to stacklessness is that > a lot

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

2008-10-25 Thread Greg Ewing
A.M. Kuchling wrote: A stray thought: does using a generator for the VM make life easier for the Stackless Python developers in any way? Does it make it possible for stock CPython to become stackless? I doubt it. A major barrier to stacklessness is that a lot of extension modules would need t

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

2008-10-25 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 07:50 AM 10/25/2008 -0400, A.M. Kuchling wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:33:23PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > Maybe not, but at least you can follow what it's doing > just by knowing C. Introducing vmgen would introduce another > layer for the reader to learn about. A stray thought: does usin

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

2008-10-25 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:33:23PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > Maybe not, but at least you can follow what it's doing > just by knowing C. Introducing vmgen would introduce another > layer for the reader to learn about. A stray thought: does using a generator for the VM make life easier for the Sta