[Stackless] Re: Stackless bug/typo

[Christian Tismer]

Jeff Senn wrote:
...

> I even crash occasionally (usually in "Tk-callback-land" somewhere)
> when slicing is enabled.  So I suspect there is still some _tkinter
> problem lurking somewhere...

Well, I've asked quite a lot of people.
For one, there is the slicing prob.
Is it possible for you to build Tcl in a way
that you can get a stack dump when it crashes?
I admit, this is quite some work.

The other thing that gives me headaches is this:
There is usually one Tcl interpreter created for
every real thread.
Tcl keeps so-called callframes on the C stack.
Without changing Tcl to use the heap, we therefore
cannot use stack slicing at all, since Tcl uses
these chained callframes for variable lookup.

Furthermore, we probably can't allow automatic scheduling
at the moment, when Tcl is involved, unless I build
a lot more support for it: The thread-global Tcl
interpreter has pointers to the most recent callframes.
It thinks, there is only one such chain. But when you are
using tasklets, there are more chains. Tcl treats it
as one, and messes up, of course.

The brutal solution is to disallow auto-scheduling,
until all nested callframes of a tasklet have disappeared.
By that, there always exists at most one single
callframe chain.
Can you please check out if that makes sense at all?
Is the thing scheduling then, or does it block, completely?

The other approach would be tokeep track of these
pointer variables. They must be saved and stored
at every tasklet switch. This would hopefully maintain
a correct callframe "tree".
Maybe there is a simpler hack, by supplying an extra
sub-interpreter for every tasklet that needs it, and
just taking care of this one.

I don't know, please let me know if you find something
out. I'd like to get maximum effect with minimum effort,
we just need to find out.

cheers - chris

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