[Stackless] Design Q. about frames

[Christian Tismer]

Hi friends,

I've been hacking quite a bit after the sprint.
The state of the source trunk is now almost in a state
that this could be the current delivered state.
I still didn't change the sprint folder to src,
since I'm thinking to do one last change:

There is the almost solved issue of f_callee.
It *might* be possible to remove it now.

The other issue is pickling of running generators.
I tried several things, but it turns out that we
absolutely need a callback after a generator is run.

This can take one of two faces:
a) Crate a baseframe object that has the action to be performed.
b) Add an f_on_return field to frames which is called on return.

Both a) and b) can do the task.
Having an extra frame lingering around for every generator
call might be doable with some caching.
But having the return callback could have some advantages,
given that the overhead of an extra call is not too high:

- probably, this callback could do the frame deallocation
   by default and therefore remove f_callee.
- this is a cheap callback added to all regular frames, and
   it can serve more purposes than just generator support,
   for instance it could be a simple callback that makes
   __init__ and ohter special methods stackless.

All this can be accomplished with an extra frame, of course.
But it might make sense to add this simple callback feature,
since it would be cheaper.

But I'm undecided.
Please, give me your input ASAP.

On registration for pickling: Both approaches would need to be
registered, somehow. b) would involve an extra registry for
pickling these callbacks, a) would be simpler since it would
go into the f_execute registry.
But I don't care, you decide.

cheers - chris
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