[Python-Dev] Trial balloon: microthreads library in stdlib

[Tristan Seligmann]

* Richard Tew <richard.m.tew at gmail.com> [2007-02-12 13:46:43 +0000]:

> I currently use Windows.  By using asyncore and monkeypatching in a
> replacement socket module based on it [1] I can give users of Stackless
> socket operations which invisibly block at the microthread level allowing
> the scheduler to continue to run.  However there is no support for
> asynchronous file IO.  Now I can monkeypatch in a replacement file
> object which uses IO completion ports [2], but at that stage I need to
> poll two different resources for events.  In order to avoid this it makes
> sense to stop using asyncore for sockets and to write a new
> replacement socket object based on IO completion ports.

...sounds kinda like the Twisted reactor. Except the IOCP implementation
thereof is still underway, I believe.

> Perhaps there is a better way.  And I of course have no concept of
> how this might be done on other platforms.

Building on an existing framework that does this seems better than
reinventing the wheel, for something of this magnitude.
-- 
mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar
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