On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> wrote: > Hi Ronny, > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 23:27, Ronny Pfannschmidt > <ronny.pfannschm...@gmx.de> wrote: >> I’d like to collect thoughts on having built-in primitives for >> co-routine suspension >> >> it would greatly simplify the work for tool-kits like eventlet/gevent, >> since no longer they would need to monkey-patch all parts of the std-lib > > While it's a worthwhile goal, I don't know if the final benefit is > positive. I can see two ways to do it inside PyPy: either we tweak > all built-in functions to call OS-provided non-blocking versions > internally (which wouldn't be any less annoying than just patching all > stdlib functions from app-level), or we spawn threads and run the > blocking calls there (but then you have a big scalability issue). > Ideally a mix of the two would be best, but I don't quite see how to > work around *all* scalability issues. >
And Ctrl-C stops working etc. etc. Those are not *really* answers. _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
