Old discussion notes needing categorization

The following are old discussion notes which may or may not reflect the current reality.

Help from domain experts would be welcome, since some of these documents probably ought to be moved to a more prominent location, some should be deleted, and some left here.

• Ordering finalizers in the SemiSpace GC
  • Goal
  • Algorithm
• Designing thread pickling or “the Essence of Stackless Python”
  • What is meant by pickling?
  • What is not meant by pickling?
  • Basic necessities
  • The real problem
  • Why a problem?
  • SLP switching strategies
  • Analogies between SLP and PyPy
  • Ways to handle the problem in a minimalistic way
  • Just an addition after some more thinking
• Possible improvements of the rpython language
  • Improve the interpreter API
  • RPython language
  • Extensible type system for llexternal
• Some discussion about external objects in ootype
  • SomeCliXxx
• Proposal of alternative approach
  • How to represent types
  • How to describe types
  • RPython interface
  • Open issues
    • Exceptions
    • Inheritance
    • Special methods/properties
  • Implementation details
• Integration of PyPy with host Virtual Machines
  • General idea
    • Example
    • The other approach
  • Split state and behaviour in the flowgraphs
    • Step 1: RPython source code
    • Step 2: RTyping
    • Step 3: Transformation
    • Inheritance