On Monday, June 19, 2017 at 7:40:49 PM UTC+5:30, Robin Becker wrote: > On 19/06/2017 01:20, Paul Rubin wrote: > ....... > > the existing C API quite seriously. Reworking the C modules in the > > stdlib would be a large but not impossible undertaking. The many > > external C modules out there would be more of an issue. > > > I have always found the management of reference counts to be one of the > hardest > things about the C api. I'm not sure exactly how C extensions would/should > interact with a GC python. There seem to be different approaches eg lua & go > are > both GC languages but seem different in how C/GC memory should interact.
Worth reading for chances python missed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/588958/what-are-the-drawbacks-of-stackless-python To be fair also this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/377254/stackless-python-and-multicores -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
