[Stackless] Ideas for Uses of Stackless Python
Kevin Littlejohn
darius at bofh.net.au
Sat Jun 9 12:13:59 CEST 2001
If anyone were to be looking into this, I'd love to hear about it - I've been
for a long time tinkering with a distributed object thing in python, that's
shortly going to shift to microthreads, and will probably have to implement
something akin to E's promises to deal with distributed coding.
KevinL
>>> Jeff Rush wrote
> Are you aware of the E Language, located at
>
> http://www.erights.org
>
> I've been following it for a few months and I think we could steal
> some neat features and use microthreads to implement them.
>
> In particular, something like the Eventually operator and
> Promises, described at:
>
> http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/ewalnut.html#SEC19
>
> I took a look at Willis' microthread API. It looks similar
> to the one for the Thread/Threading module. I'm hoping for
> something a bit different and easier to use than traditional
> multithreading, like Promises, which can never deadlock. The
> Promises concept spins off microthreads transparently.
>
> -Jeff
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