Stackless python and microthreads

[Christian Tismer]

Dmitry Borisov wrote:

>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> Chris,
> I was interested in measuring performance with some apps I have around here. 
> I think I should recompile pygame for it as it crashes. 
> Did you try pygame with stackless ? Any clue if it works ?

I think it works. I didn't test it, explicitly, but since I have
replaced the Python system dll by my Stackless one long time ago,
and I tried a nice little demo app from Armin Rigo, last time,
which was written in PyGame,
I have to conclude that PyGames seems to work.

:-)

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