On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Andrew Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > As I stated in a previous post, I have written a new version of stackless.py > incorporating a concept called join patterns. Join patterns build up on the > work I have done with stackless.select(). I am still experimenting with the > API amongst other things. So things look rough. When I get stuff stabilized, > I'll post a new version of stackless.py in the stackless repository. ... > I would appreciate feedback.
Hi Andrew, It is always good to see people working on Stackless-related projects. My feedback however, may not be helpful, but feedback it is. It may be that I alone in these thoughts, so feel free to dismiss them and carry on! :-) First the superficial stuff. Dining philosophers is boring and academic. It wasn't interesting to me in university, it isn't now, and its lack of usefulness hides the usefulness of whatever implements it. I think that what you are doing is interesting, and a straightforward practical example would better serve to illustrate this. Also gmail displays your mail in a mono-type font, this makes it appear monotonous and makes me even less likely to force myself to read an implementation of dining philosophers - but that's probably gmail and not your email. Next your join patterns and select. When I read the code I don't understand it. I think that there has to be a simpler interface than arcane terms like "joinPattern", "JoinReceiveChanop" and "receiveCase". However, I think I would need that practical example where this is useful before I could suggest something better. I expect that the only way to make a straightforward and easy to use interface would be if the language facilitated it, and as you are using pypy I believe, that's actually a possibility. Anyway hope this is of some help, Cheers, Richard. _______________________________________________ Stackless mailing list [email protected] http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless
