ANN: Twisted 1.1.1

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:11:40PM +0100, Just wrote:
> 
> This ties nicely into the xsdb + stackless discussion:
> 
>   - threads + blocking sockets is attractive since the code can be
>     written in a natural style, yet cause overhead and
>     synchronization headaches.
> 
>   - async sockets are attractive because they avoid threads and
>     therefore avoid overhead and synchronization issues. Yet it
>     is often a bit harder to code, since you need to turn your
>     code inside out, using callbacks.
> 
> But there is a "perfect" solution: co-routines. With co-routines you can 
> both write the code in a "natural" style, but still using an even-driven 
> core. This is a very pleasant model to work with, so I totally 
> understand that some people (eg. Aaron) choose to use Stackless to make 
> this possible.

co-routines miss one of the features of the threading model, though, which
is preemptive concurrency.  I prefer the async way of working too, but I can
see that co-routines don't provide the best of both worlds...

-Andrew.