[Python-Dev] Adding Python-Native Threads

[Christian Tismer]

Michael Sparks wrote:

...

> Indeed - Greenlets allows you to build the functionality you propose without 
> having to change the language.
> 
> 
>>>For example, with Greenlets you would use the .switch() method of a 
>>
>>specific greenlet instance to switch to it, and with my python-native
>>threads you would use the global idle() function which would decide
>>for itself which thread to switch to.
> 
> 
> This is easy enough to build using greenlets today. I tried writing an
> experimental version of our generator scheduling system using greenlets
> rather than generators and found it to work very nicely. I'd suggest that if 
> you really want this functionality (I can understand why) that you revisit 
> greenlets - they probably do what you want.

I'd like to add that in most production code I saw so far,
people are much more happy with explicit switching of
(green|task)lets. The wish for free-running stuff like real
threads is a typical symptom in an early project phase.
When it becomes more serious, you will love to have as much
control as possible, and leave auto-switching to the very
rare cases like some background monitoring or other stuff
which is not really involved in you control/data flow.

ciao - chris

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