On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Stephan Diehl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Richard Tew wrote: > [...] >> I would say that the wikipedia entry isn't wrong as such, it is just >> vague, and misleading because of that. Tasklets run concurrently. > > I probably didn't have the right definition of 'concurrently'. > Wikipedia says about Concurrency: > """ > In computer science, concurrency is a property of systems in which > several computations are executing simultaneously, and potentially > interacting with each other. The computations may be executing on > multiple cores in the same chip, preemptively time-shared threads on the > same processor, or executed on physically separated processors. > """ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)) > > In that sense, it seems to be a bit of a stretch to claim that tasklets > run concurrently. But I'm probably nitpicking here :-)
Perhaps call them "Channel-managed coroutines"? :p /edit Bah, resent, to the list this time, apparently the list server did not set the list return attribute. _______________________________________________ Stackless mailing list [email protected] http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless
