[Python-ideas] Coroutines and PEP 380

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Matt Joiner <anacrolix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Used for concurrency with an eventing scheduler in Python they give:
>
> * Massive concurrency with minimal system impact (try 20k threads
> instead of 20k coroutines),
> * Side-step the GIL,
>
>

How would the eventing scheduler  and coroutines side-step the GIL?


Yuval
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