[Python-ideas] Async API

[Christian Tismer]

On 24.10.12 01:00, Sam Rushing wrote:
> On 10/23/12 3:05 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> ...

>> There is only one way to 'magically' make existing code both sync- & async-
>> friendly--greenlets, but I think there is no chance for them (or stackless) to
>> land in cpython in the foreseeable future (although it would be awesome.)
>>
>> BTW, why didn't you use greenlets in shrapnel and ended up with your own
>> implementation?
> I think shrapnel predates greenlets... some of the core asm code for
> greenlets may have come from one of shrapnel's precursors at ironport...
> Unfortunately it took many years to get shrapnel open-sourced - I
> remember talking with Guido about it over lunch in ~2006.
>

Hi Sam,

greenlets were developed in 2004 by Armin Rigo, on the first
(and maybe only) Stackless sprint here in Berlin.
The greenlet asm code was ripped out of Stackless and slightly
improved, but has the same old stack-slicing idea.

cheers - chris

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