[Stackless] Functions vs. Classes

[Christian Tismer]

Jordan McCoy wrote:
> Greetings all.
> 
> First off, pretty glad I found stackless, it's exactly what I need for some
> of the work I'm doing. I do have a question though, and thought I would ask
> this list before concocting a test.
> 
> I have an interest in replacing the function usually given a tasklet with a
> callable object; thus each tasklet would be running an actual class object
> rather then a function. I know there will be a performance hit due to the
> class overhead, but I need to know how much of a hit it would be. Has anyone
> tried this before, and produced hard numbers? Any general thoughts?

That depends on how often you are creating tasklets.
It is only the startup overhead. Later on, your tasklet
runs at the same speed as everything else, the task
switching time is not dependent from that.
On the other hand, if you are creating very short
running tasklets all the time for just a few instructions,
the overhead might become more visible. But I wouldn't
care, this is *all* very fast stuff.

cheers - chris

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