[Stackless] http server experiment

[Paul Sheer]

> 
> I put together an HTTP server prototype 
> 

its beautiful

*sniff*

it will go down in history (i mean this!)

-paul

> using Christian Tismer's excellent stackless python I'd like to
> have interested people look at it and try itb.  
> 
> It will reside here, until such time as Robin Becker decides
> he needs to delete it :)
> 
> ftp://ftp.reportlab.com/tmp/stackless_experiments.zip (temporarily!)
> 
> The main point of interest is:
> 
> 1) it doesn't use operating system threads.
> 2) it doesn't block.
> 3) it doesn't break each operation into 5 million little method calls.
> 
> That is to say, The operation to send a file (without blocking even if 
> the file is large)
> looks like this:
> 
> while there is data: read some data; send some data
> 
> This is in stark contrast to the standard "state machine" approach.
> Also, since I'm not using operating system threads I can minutely
> control the scheduling without difficulties (and have less overhead, I 
> think).
> 
> Thanks again Christian!
> 
>    -- Aaron Watters
> 
> ps: see notes.txt though :(
> 
> ===
> A young women from new jersey sat next to a young english woman on an 
> airplane.
> 
> jersey girl: So, where're you from?
> brit girl: I'm from a place where we know not to end sentences with 
> prepositions.
> jersey girl: So, where're you from, bitch?
> 
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