[Stackless] micro-threads & co-routines

[Just van Rossum]

At 2:05 PM +0300 11-10-2000, Christian Tismer wrote:
>You're wlecome. It was overdue. I hope it also fixes
>all of the MAC leaks which I couldn't reproduce.

Sure does, thanks. I hope it also fixes the leaks that Mike experienced.

>> co-routines:
>> - In the coro list (at egroups) I've proposed a co-routine API
>>   and have presented an implementation of it. I think it's fairly
>>   solid (apart from some continuation compatibility issues that
>>   only Chris understands..). Is it an idea to include it with
>>   the stackless distro? (It happens to be included in the Mac
>>   binary, as that's simply my working copy...)
>
>I think this API will be the right thing (with tiny changes)

Like what? (API-wise, of course.)

>after an overhaul of Stackless.
>
>In a former message on this list, you mentioned that
>continuations are way too powerful for coroutines.
>This is not true (or will loose today's truth, soon:).

I hope you're right ;-) One thing that will have to change (and that's
largely a matter for the continuation API) is that cyclic references should
be easier to avoid. The current continuation API makes this incredibly hard
due to too much smartness. (But that's a whole nother discussion we've
mostly already had...)

[ snipped the rest ]
I worry about the length of your explanation: if it's not easy to explain,
it might not be such a good idea. I still don't see a compelling reason to
introduce yet another ownership mechanism: why not use the standard
refcounting mechanism? In our private discussion I showed you how this
could work, even in an exception context. I strongly feel that introducing
another ownership rule causes more trouble than it solves.

Just


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