Oct. 31, 2011
7:08 a.m.
Matt Joiner wrote:
I've had a lot of success with the greenlet model, it's quite trivial to wrap it up to implicitly spawn an IO loop under the covers. The downside is that all the client code needs to be adjusted to defer blocking calls to the loop, or the entire standard library must be hooked. Again, this doesn't play well with the C stuff: Native C modules, or any third party calls that don't expect to be part of the greenlet model will block entire threads.
That seems to be true of *any* approach, short of using a hacked libc that replaces all the system calls. -- Greg