Hello, It was mentioned several times on the list already, and I would like to finally make a formal announcement of it, also to mark "mostly complete" status.
What: uasyncio is asyncio-like library for MicroPython (https://github.com/micropython/micropython) to accommodate writing asyncio-style applications for constrained (both memory- and CPU-wise) systems, down to microcontrollers, but also for small embedded Linux systems (as well as for embedding into non-Python applications, or producing small self-contained applications). Where: https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib/tree/master/uasyncio.core https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib/tree/master/uasyncio Structure: uasyncio is structured as 2 components: uasyncio.core module which implements generic priority queue based scheduler, and uasyncio package proper, which adds async I/O support (currently with Linux support). Functionality provided: uasyncio implements subset of asyncio functionality: 1. It is built around concept of coroutines. Future's and Task's are not part of its core API. 2. For I/O, high-level Stream API is supported, without low-level Transport API. Differences from asyncio: 1. The main difference is that uasyncio is strictly asynchronous library, with writing (and other related operations) being as asynchronous as read. More info is in http://bugs.python.org/issue24449 which also links to recent discussion on the list. 2. One potential difference is handling of Stream close operations. This aspect isn't yet fully worked out (and is the reason why I didn't post uasyncio announcement earlier). Intuitively, the issue is that asyncio separate read and write Streams into separate objects. But underlying socket object is a duplex read/write one, so closing it should be done carefully. As uasyncio tries to avoid extra abstraction layers, its handling of close operations is different to that of asyncio. Any hints/discussion of this issue is welcome. 3. As an extension, it's possible to schedule a new coroutine for execution by just yielding it. This was also discussed previously at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tulip/2430 . To let uasyncio applications run with asyncio, there's a compatibility module available at https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib/tree/master/cpython-uasyncio Ecosystem: An experimental web stack was prototyped on top of uasyncio: 1. picoweb web pico-framework: https://github.com/pfalcon/picoweb 2. utemplate tiny template module: https://github.com/pfalcon/utemplate 3. uorm tiny anti-ORM (current implementation supports Sqlite and actually synchronous so far): https://github.com/pfalcon/uorm Also, there's an async HTTP client https://github.com/pfalcon/micropython-uaiohttpclient (roughly following aiohttp API). There's an example application for picoweb ported from Flask: https://github.com/pfalcon/notes-pico Having MicroPython installed, the test app can be installed/run with: micropython -m upip install notes-pico micropython -X heapsize=150wK -m notes_pico.main Achieved memory efficiency: I once read an article which described coolness of Python coroutines, in particular mentioning that a coroutine object takes a "mere" 1KB of memory, so there can easily be tens of thousands of them, unlike (preemptive) threads. In MicroPython, a small coroutine takes 32 bytes of memory. But a minimal web application using picoweb still requires 50KB of heap to run. That's good enough for Linux systems, but somewhat on bigger side for microcontrollers (for comparison, reference microcontroller system for uPy has 128KB of heap; we would like to support systems down to 16KB of memory). Achieved performance: Testcases are in https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib/tree/master/uasyncio/benchmark uasyncio + MicroPython: Document Length: 12000 bytes Concurrency Level: 100 Complete requests: 10000 Requests per second: 10699.74 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 9.346 [ms] (mean) asyncio + cpython-uasyncio + CPython 3.4.2 Document Length: 12000 bytes Concurrency Level: 100 Complete requests: 10000 Requests per second: 4876.02 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 20.509 [ms] (mean) Apache 2.4 + default static page Document Length: 11510 bytes Concurrency Level: 100 Complete requests: 10000 Requests per second: 12857.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 7.777 [ms] (mean) -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
