2011/1/10 Alex Grönholm
<alex.gronholm@nextday.fi>
There has been some discussion over email between myself and
several
Twisted developers regarding the possibility of adding support
for PEP
3148 futures and executors to Twisted. I'm starting this
thread to move
the conversation to this mailing list to gain a broader
audience.
For those who do not know what PEP 3148 is about, suffice to
say that
it's an API for deferred execution of code.
I just want to make clear up-front the subtle point that
Twisted's Deferreds are not tools for "deferred execution of
code", but rather for "deferred receipt of results". It's easy
to forget this and believe that the similar jargon implies
similarity in purpose.