Alternatives to Stackless Python?

[Christophe]

Olivier Dormond a écrit :
> 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.

Then they are useless for nearly all the uses cases I need them :/ And 
that's why stackless is still relevant here. Or maybe pypy too but it's 
still a long time to go.