[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Stackless Python

[Terry Reedy]

"Gordon McMillan" <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote in message
news:200406021422.42480.gmcm at hypernet.com...
> Let me pop my head up for a second.

Welcome ;-)

> You won't see Stackless do anything (from a user's perspective) that
can't be
> done without Stackless[1].
> [1] Though perhaps you can do more / quicker, because of more efficient
> memory usage than an implementation using threads.

Except that for real-time game simulations, running smoothly without
freeze-ups (and crashes) *is* experientially different, for the gamer-user,
from being frozen in the middle of deadly battle, which is typically when
freeze-ups occur.

> Stackless (like generators) just makes some things much easier.
> Basically, any state machine(s) with complex internal state (and
relatively
> simple events) will be much more straightforward to write in Stackless.

Enought more so to lead to less bugs and/or more features (if the same time
is allotted)?

> I can't speak to the new Stackless, but in 2000 I did a proprietary,
> commercial app for Avid that used Stackless (and lots of C extensions).
It
> went through Avid's QA, so it would not have been released if it crashed.

OK, another success story, even if somewhat old.

Terry J. Reedy