[Vm-dev] Recreating live coding in CPython 3.5

[Dimitris Chloupis]

does "become" only exchange references ? Or is it more to it than that ?

where I can find information about what insance enumeration and reified
stack frames are ?

Python has methods in gc module (module for its garbage collector) to find
objects that point to an object or objects that an object point to . But it
has no convenient method to exchange those references . I assume you could
do it via an iteration but I never tried it in practice.

Indeed such feature is essential for live coding.  I will have to add it to
my implementation thanks.

Is this book still relevant for my implementation ?
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 6:07 PM Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
wrote:

> On Wed 11. Oct 2017 at 16:27, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am talking about beyond those obvious features that Python has them
>> covered is there anything special the Cog VM is doing live coding wise that
>> I am not aware of ?
>>
>
> Instance enumeration, the become operation, and reified stack frames are
> features that set Smalltalk apart and enable many of its live coding
> capabilities. Cog supports these features. Cog was specifically designed to
> allow fast stack operations in the normal case while still allowing frame
> manipulation. Spur was designed to make "become" fast, it used to be very
> expensive.
>
> - Bert -
>
>>
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