Oct. 30, 2011
9:16 p.m.
Nick Coghlan wrote:
The fact that greenlets exists (and works) demonstrates that it is possible to correctly manage and execute multiple Python stacks within a single OS thread.
I'm not convinced that greenlets work correctly under all possible circumstances. As I understand, they work by copying pieces of C stack in and out when switching tasks. That fails if a pointer to local storage is kept anywhere that can be reached by a different task. I seem to remember there being an issue with Tk doing something like this and causing problems for Stackless. -- Greg