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Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit.

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Subject Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit.
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 18:56:17 +0100, "Skybuck Flying"
> <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> declaimed the following:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'd like to see instruction execution enhanced with the following two ideas:
>>
>>1. A termination bit, and a terminator pointer.
>>2. A alternation bit, and a alternate pointer.
>>
>         Don't see it here... You've just enabled leaving lots of corrupted data
> structures in the system... (Imagine your "termination" branch is taken
> after a call that allocated a 500MB block of memory, but before the call
> that returns that memory to the system).

Honestly, I wouldn't bother responding to this kind of thing here on
python-list. There's nothing about Python in the entire post. It's a
CPU-level feature that "might" be able to be adopted eventually by the
implementation of languages like Python. If I were to hazard a guess,
I would say that a feature like this would migrate first through CPU
discussions, then through C compilers, then to PyPy, and finally might
end up in CPython, if it got widespread use. But until it gets at
least to the PyPy level, it's not of much interest here. (Even then,
it'll be an obscure feature on a very specific platform, and probably
of only cursory interest.)

If this really IS worth doing, there'll be OS programmers all over it
for years before it ever affects Python.

ChrisA

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(Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-19 18:56 +0100
  Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-19 21:27 -0500
  Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 14:44 +1100
  Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-20 12:25 +0100
    Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-20 11:21 -0500
    Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 22:04 -0600
    Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-21 13:40 +0100
      Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-21 12:57 -0500
        Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-21 19:32 +0000
          Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-29 12:25 +0100
            Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-30 00:22 +1100
              Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-29 22:43 +0100
                Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-30 11:00 +1100
                Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-03 02:18 +0100
                Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-03 19:44 +1100
                Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-08 12:59 +0100
          Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-29 12:42 +0100
      Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-22 16:46 +0100
        Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 02:56 +1100
          Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-29 12:23 +0100
  Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 20:07 -0800
    Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-30 23:56 +1100
      Re: (Execution) Termination bit, Alternation bit. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-30 12:19 -0500

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