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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS">Hi there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS">Since python 2.7 was killed off, there is still regularly talk of reviving its evolution.  I even got permission to host such a branch at python.org at one point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS">However, I just realize that we already have that, namely stackless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS">Would there be much objection if I started porting backward compatible changes to 2.7 in order to keep it up to speed?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS">What I have in mind in the first pass is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="IS"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="IS">threading improvement.  Adding timeout to locks.  Improving locking performance on windows.  Some of this would be 3.3 backports<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="IS"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="IS">Adding a native threading.Condition class for faster inter-thread signalling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS">Other minor things, but you get my drift.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IS">K<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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