Python 2.0 and Stackless

[Toby Dickenson]

gmcm at hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan) wrote:

>Personally, I think a coroutine interface is needed. It's fine with me if 
>the continuation interface continues to be arcane - that's the nature of 
>continuations. But coroutines are graspable even by people who think that 
>"call" is not decomposable. I've been using stackless heavily since May, 
>and everything I've done with it (except some experiments) qualifies as 
>coroutines. Christian & I have talked about the patterns we've each used 
>for this stuff, and I hope a friendly interface will grow out of it.

This comes back to the but-jpython-cant-be-stackless argument.
Performance aside, a higher level coroutine module can be supported on
jpython using threads.



Toby Dickenson
tdickenson at geminidataloggers.com