Hi Kristján:
--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Kristján Valur Jónsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been exporing the bowels of Stackless a bit in the
> last weeks and am somewhat familiar with the topic.
Thanks a lot for the detailed description!
As per Armin's suggestion, I will move this thread to the stackless
mailing list.
> I have not done any performance measurements to evaluate
> the merits of soft switching. But I must confess that
> the presence of soft-switching makes stackless much more
> difficult to understand for me. And a lot of the diff
> between trunk python and stackless python is because of the
> boilerplate code required to get soft switching to work.
Well I came across two slides in the "Stackless Python and PyPy Nults and
Bolts" talk.
It states that soft switching is 100 x faster than a thread. Hard switching is
10 x. I don't know if this fact is helpful.
> I hope this clears things up.
It helps. I need to learn a lot more to better use the information
you have given me.
Cheers,
Andrew
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