Aug. 7, 2010
4:51 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Carl M. Johnson <cmjohnson.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
Of course, as we all know on the OS side of things, cooperative multitasking has been more or less phased out [...]
I don't think you can see this as reflecting badly on cooperative multitasking. Rather, it is now understood better and has moved entirely to user space, leaving the OS to deal with preemptive threads, which cannot work well without OS support. As an example of cooperative multitasking being alive and well, see Stackless, Greenlets, and, in fact, coroutines built out of generators (possible in Python 2.5 and later). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)