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Stackless Reincarnate

Author: oreillynet.com | Published: 10th Aug 2005 | Visited: 306 times | Add Comment
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02/14/2002 Stackless was a controversial modification to Python, separating its execution stack from the C execution stack, the C-stack. With Stackless you could set up multiple execution chains, switch between them, change them, or restart them. Uncoupled from the C-stack, you could capture the control flow of your Python program and manipulate it any way you wanted to. Manipulating the execution stack is the basic idea behind continuations, a building block for many other obscure but...n

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