Hi, You may have seen Google's new programming language, Go (www.golang.com). Like Stackless Python, it is influenced by Limbo and contains microthread and channel like primitives. In fact, where Stackless adds these elements over Python in an extension library/framework manner, in Go they are supported by types and keywords as a natural part of the language.
Go is stackless where Stackless is not. Its goroutines use allocated stacks (starting at 4k in size) and can continue running on different threads where Stackless tasklets cannot. In fact, when a goroutine blocks on a system call, the other goroutines in its scheduler are migrated to another thread. I've written up a short comparison which you can read here if you want to see the different ways to do the similar operations: http://posted-stuff.blogspot.com/2009/11/comparing-go-and-stackless-python.html Cheers, Richard. _______________________________________________ Stackless mailing list Stackless@stackless.com http://www.stackless.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless
