Stackless python and microthreads

[Christian Tismer]

Matt Leslie wrote:

...

> Anyway, stackless would be good for this because I need lots of threads 
> so simulate large scale P2P systems.

This is true. For performance comparison reasons, and to make
Stackless "complete" in a way, I just developed real thread support
and measured context switch speed. Now it is not longer a claim,
but the truth (going to be Stackless 3.1):

Stackless soft-switched channels are 10 times faster than
using real threads.

Stackless tasklets are 10000 times smaller than threads on Windows.

> The thing is although there was a 
> fair amount of documentation on microthreads I can find nothing usefull 
> on tasklets! Can anyone point me at some? Please? The stackless mailing 
> list has turned up nothing so far...

There isn't much, of course. There is the beginning of a glossary
on the website, there are lots of exmaples in preparation
after the last sprint, but actually there is still a lack
of documentation.

The C API is there, just look into stackless_api.h.

Then, for a description of individual functions,

import stackless
help(stackless)

gives you a lot of information.

Feel free to ask me for support, I will help as much as I can.

cheers - chris

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