On Dec 10, 5:39 am, gangesmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've had this strange idea of using the exception's traceback (which > holds the stack frame) to enable functional continuations, meaning, > raise some special exception which will be caught by a reactor/ > scheduler/framework, which could later revive it by restoring the > frame. > > i'm thinking of using the generator's implementation (some minimal > support on the c-side) > > has this been tried before? what were the results? > > thanks, > -tomer
That idea has been tried here http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/474088 It fails with algorithms which not use tail call recursion, and is veeery slow. Try with Stackless. Lautaro -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
