[Python-Dev] Hello everyone + little question around Cpython/stackless (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Dec 28 11:51:48 CET 2008

Hello,

I'm currently studying all I can find on stackless python, PYPY and the concepts they've brought to Python, and so far I wonder : since stackless python claims to be 100% compatible with CPython's extensions, faster, and brings lots of fun stuffs (tasklets, coroutines and no C stack), how comes it hasn't been merged back, to become the standard 'fast' python implementation ?

I'm not sure Stackless ever claimed to be faster than CPython for standard tasks (i.e., not coroutine-related). Do you have any pointers to this?

As for coroutines, the greenlets (*) package is said to bring them to the standard interpreter.

(*) http://codespeak.net/py/dist/greenlet.html

Regards

Antoine.

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