[EuroPython] A talk about Stackless?

Martijn Faassen faassen@vet.uu.nl
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:44:04 +0100


Christian Tismer wrote:
[snip form and shape of the talk]
> Hmm, I'm quite undecided. I'd like to explain how this new
> version works, in contrast to the old one (just short).
> One of the biggest advantages of this new thing is that
> it is really explainable, since it is so simple and orthogonal
> to Python's innards.
> At the same time, I'd want to present it in an interactive
> session, show some coroutines talking to each others, let
> uthreads run in parallel, and show that this works even
> from C extension code.
> Maybe there could be a discussion like at Spam 9, maybe
> with Guido if he likes to.

Interactive session it should be then. We need to work out some
infrastructure for this type of thing. Though a laptop with overhead
projector will already get us a long way. Added a note to the wiki. 

> You know that I'm playing asembly tricks.
> But there is also something funny, which we found out when
> I visited Jean_Claude Wippler last week:

Someone else else we really need to contact. :)

[snip interesting techie stuff]

Regards,

Martijn