Hello Armin:
--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Armin Rigo <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a question for Stackless Python only, not PyPy, so
> you should post in that mailing list, not here :-) To answer it,
> it's not visible to the user: it's just two different implementations of
> switching. "Hard switching" is by actually moving part of the C stack
> away; "soft switching" is using a purely standard C approach.
> PyPy only has soft switching (but with the same Stackless interface).
But is soft switching still about roughly 10 times faster than hard
switching (value quoted in the Nuts and Bolts presentation).
Because of only support for soft switching, I will assume I will have to write
my own PyPy extension for say, networking I/O like select()/asyncore. Or does
that already exist?
Cheers,
Andrew
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