On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Andrew Francis <[email protected]>wrote:
> At both PyCon 2011 and EuroPython 2010, I was somewhat surprised by the > popularity of greenlet based solutions (eventlet, gevent). This is despite > the fact that a Stackless Python based solution ought to outperform the > aforementioned. > Greenlet is where the attention and interest is, and I do not find it surprising. It is a lot more approachable to use an extension and gain the bulk of the benefits of Stackless, than to use a custom Python interpreter. To be honest, I see this as a positive thing that speaks for how token and cumbersome generator coroutines are as a solution for the same sorts of problems. > During PyCon 2011, there were two discussions of particular interest. The > first was with Christian Tismer about what makes stackless "stackless" and > when does hard switching occur. This is important since soft switching is > ten times faster than hard switching. > > Of interest to me is how many times in the typically networking scenario > does hard switches occur? And maybe alter Stackless to occur these cases. > > ... > I have a few more ideas but this all for now. Comments? > No idea about Twisted related topics. I have little understanding of, and no interest in the subject. Cheers, Richard.
_______________________________________________ Stackless mailing list [email protected] http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless
