On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> wrote: > Hi Andrew, hi all, > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 18:23, Andrew Francis <andrewfr_...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>Indeed, and it was around 2007, so I expect the authors to have been >>>involved in completely different things for quite some time now... >>>But I could try to contact them anyway. >> >> Communications is good :-) > > I'm also thinking about writing a short paper collecting things I said > and think on various blog posts. A kind of "position paper". What do > others think of this idea?
I can help > >> My PyPy knowledge is still sketchy but I am changing that. I do understand >> the Twisted reactor model >> (thanks to my 2008 Pycon Talk) so I could follow discussions in that area. >> Is this discussed on IRC? > > This is not discussed a lot right now. But it is apparently > relatively easy to adapt the epoll-based Twisted reactor to use the > 'transaction' module. (Again, this module is present in the stm-gc > branch; look for lib_pypy/transaction.py for the interface, and > pypy/module/transaction/* for the Python implementation on top of STM > as exposed by RPython.) This 'transaction' module is also meant to be > used directly, for example in this kind of Python code: > > for n in range(...): > do_something(n) > > If each call to do_something() has "reasonable chances" to be > independent from other calls, and if the order doesn't matter, then it > can be rewritten as: > > for n in range(...): > transaction.add(do_something, n) > transaction.run() > > In addition, each transaction can add more transactions that will be > run after it. So if you want to play with lib_pypy/stackless.py to > add calls to 'transaction', feel free :-) Maybe it will show that a > slightly different API is required from the 'transaction' module; I > don't really know so far. > > > A bientôt, > > Armin. > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
