[Python-Dev] Stackless Python - Pros and Cons (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen jack@oratrix.nl
Sun, 06 Aug 2000 22:56:48 +0200

Could the defenders of Stackless Python please explain why this is such a great idea? Just and Christian seem to swear by it, but I'd like to hear of some simple examples of programming tasks that will be programmable in 50% less code with it (or 50% more understandable code, for that matter).

And, similarly, could the detractors of Stackless Python explain why it is such a bad idea. A lot of core-pythoneers seem to have misgivings about it, even though issues of compatability and efficiency have been countered many times here by its champions (at least, it seems that way to a clueless bystander like myself). I'd really like to be able to take a firm standpoint myself, that's part of my personality, but I really don't know which firm standpoint at the moment:-)

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