Does Stackless really reap the benefits of multicore systems? Stackless is not a threading solution, it is a green threading solution. As such it allows you to have threadlike objects run within the same OS thread, but requires the user to handcode any thread-level parallelism.
Cheers, Richard. On 1/7/14, Werner Thie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/6/14 3:51 PM, Christian Tismer wrote: >> On 07.01.14 02:23, Richard Tew wrote: >>> No, I just want to be clear on what everyone expects to get out of it. >>> For me, as I understand it, it's 2.x with whatever whomever wishes to >>> backport from 3.x, included. Therefore, to some degree it would also >>> serve (with no extra work than any of us plans) as an intermediate >>> point that lessens effort in migrating to 3.x by being somewhere in >>> between. >>> >>> I think that renaming the executable is what you should do. People >>> can alias to 'python' as they please. >> >> Very much agreed! >> That is what I'm going to do consequently, >> and quite probably this is the best to do in the future, too! >> >> But let us try it with 2.8 first. If people like what they get, then we >> should >> consider to extend the renaming. >> >> all the best -- Chris >> > > Hi > > if stackless 2.8 serves as a melting pot for new ideas and > implementations and aggregates what's out there, it's a win for me. > > I like the idea of not having to write my own process management system > to reap the benefits of multicore architectures with ease and I also > like to have the light weight multiprocessing with tasklets and > channels, which was way back then what fascinated me about massive MP in > simulations done with OCCAM and the transputer architecture from INMOS. > > All in all, I like stackless and where its going a lot and it feels good > to see that there is a future for the 2.x series, which not only holds > grunt work porting old stuff forward to three series pythons, not > leaving any time to implement new ideas and concepts. > > Werner > > _______________________________________________ > Stackless mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless > _______________________________________________ Stackless mailing list [email protected] http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless
