[Python-Dev] Preventing recursion core dumps (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:51:31 +0100

(Sorry for the late reply, that's what you get when you don't Cc me...)

Vladimir Marangozov wrote:

[Just] > Gordon, how's that Stackless PEP coming along? > Sorry, I couldn't resist ;-)

Ah, in this case, we'll get a memory error after filling the whole disk with frames

No matter how much we wink to each other, that was a cheap shot; especially since it isn't true: Stackless has a MAX_RECURSION_DEPTH value. Someone who has studied Stackless "in detail" (your words ;-) should know that.

Admittedly, that value is set way too high in the last stackless release (123456 ;-), but that doesn't change the principle that Stackless could solve the problem discussed in this thread in a reliable and portable manner.

Of course there's be work to do:

But the hardest task seems to be to get rid of the hostility and prejudices against Stackless :-(

Just