Yes, I remember Parrot. As I understand it their original goal was a language-agnostic virtual machine, which might have complicated things.
I will do a bit of reading and add some text to the "PEP." Skip On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:36 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > The Parrot project was also intended to be the same thing, and for a while > had a fair number of contributors. Unfortunately, it never obtained the > performance wins that were good for. > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:55 AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Back in the late 90s (!) I worked on a reimagining of the Python >> virtual machine as a register-based VM based on 1.5.2. I got part of >> the way with that, but never completed it. In the early 2010s, Victor >> Stinner got much further using 3.4 as a base. The idea (and dormant >> code) has been laying around in my mind (and computers) these past >> couple decades, so I took another swing at it starting in late 2019 >> after retirement, mostly as a way to keep my head in the game. While I >> got a fair bit of the way, it stalled. I've picked it up and put it >> down a number of times in the past year, often needing to resolve >> conflicts because of churn in the current Python virtual machine. >> Though I kept getting things back in sync, I realize this is not a >> one-person project, at least not this one person. There are several >> huge chunks of Python I've ignored over the past 20 years, and not >> just the internals. (I've never used async anything, for example.) If >> it is ever to truly be a viable demonstration of the concept, I will >> need help. I forked the CPython repo and have a branch (register2) of >> said fork which is currently synced up with the 3.10 (currently >> master) branch: >> >> https://github.com/smontanaro/cpython/tree/register2 >> >> I started on what could only very generously be called a PEP which you >> can read here. It includes some of the history of this work as well as >> details about what I've managed to do so far: >> >> https://github.com/smontanaro/cpython/blob/register2/pep-9999.rst >> >> If you think any of this is remotely interesting (whether or not you >> think you'd like to help), please have a look at the "PEP". Because >> this covers a fair bit of the CPython implementation, chances to >> contribute in a number of areas exist, even if you have never delved >> into Python's internals. Questions/comments/pull requests welcome. >> >> Skip Montanaro >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-id...@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-id...@python.org/message/IUKZPH4ZSZ22RZFKMITQ3Q6A22P4BXWX/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
