Re: stackless implementation (was Re: New stacklessproposal)

Christian Tismer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Hahn wrote:

>>From: Christian Tismer
> 
> 
>>>Right now I think the tasklets with C stack copying for one type of 
>>>thread combined with OS threads is a good overall conservative 
>>>combination.  If I understand you correctly I can implement 
>>
>>this with 
>>
>>>your basic assembler primitives and by asking lots of questions. :-)
>>
>>Wait!
>>If you reduce it to this, then there is no benefit remaining 
>>from your being stackless, but maybe the pickling. :-)
> 
> 
> I don't understand.  If they don't call C extensions then they will have
> pure interpreter tasklets with maximum speed and minimum memory, all the
> benefits of taskless, right?

Yes, if you support it actively.
What you were saying above sounded like just the
Stackless 2.0 feature, stack moving only.
Stackless 2.0 can be implemented for any interpreter
as a pure extension module.

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