[Stackless] Differences between tasklet pickling in Stackless Python and Pypy

[Christian Tismer]

Hi Alain,

On 7/6/12 5:06 PM, Alain Poirier wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Pushing my tasklets and pickling tests on Pypy further, I see a lots
> of stuffs are pickled by Pypy when a single tasklet is pickled. For
> example the main tasklet is pickled too. In this case, I'm not really
> sure what happens on unpickling, if this can't lead to problems.
> What do you think?
>
> Here is a script displaying the serialized tasklets and showing the
> problem. On Stackless Python, only one tasklet is pickled :
>
>    ...
>    -----
>    Serialized tasklets set([<stackless.tasklet object at 0x10047ea60>])
>
>
> On Pypy, the main tasklet is pickled too :
>
>    ...
>    -----
>    Serialized tasklets set([<tasklet[, 1]>, <tasklet[main, 0]>])

Yes, this is related to the same wrong design principle.
The main tasklet should _not_ be included in the pickle in the first
place. Instead, it is crucial that a fresh one gets created, instead.

I think it makes no sense to investigate any further on this code --
it is simply known to be not perfect, to say the least.
I will try to provide a fix/re-write.

Cheers - Chris

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