Alternatives to Stackless Python?

[Olivier Dormond]

Christophe wrote:
> simonwittber at gmail.com a écrit :
> 
>>> I found LGT http://lgt.berlios.de/ but it didn't seem as if the
>>> NanoThreads module had the same capabilites as stackless.
>>
>> What specific capabilities of Stackless are you looking for, that are
>> missing from NanoThreads?
> 
> Capabilities of the different "threadlike" systems are somewhat muddy. 
> What myself I like in stackless is :
> - you can put context switching instuctions anywhere in the callstack 
> without having to explicitely chain the operation
> - pickle support
> 
> Not sure if greenlets support pickling yet. There are no info on that 
> point and my tests weren't succesful.

The greenlets play with the underlying CPU stack directly so I don't
think they could ever be pickled.