[Stackless] Re: Stackless API

[Oren Tirosh]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:50:06AM -0300, Esteban U. Caamano Castro wrote:
> > I gues that raising a bomb on a channels is not the
> > most
> > common action unless you are the roadrunner coyote,
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > so maybe it would be most efficient to use a special
> > object as a marker flag? This object could be solely
> > visible
> > to channels.
> 
> Yes, this is Tirosh' proposal.
> 
> Assume that you have a channel class with no exception
> support whatsoever. You could implement
> exception sending on top of that, like this
> 
> 
> class CoyoteChannel(stackless.channel):
> 
>     class __ExceptionWrapper:
>         def __init__(self, exc):
>             self.exc = exc
> 
>     def send_exception(self, exc):
>         self.send(self.__ExceptionWrapper(exc))
> 
>     def receive(self):
>         o = stackless.channel.receive(self)
>         if getattr(o, '__class__', None) is \
>                 self.__ExceptionWrapper:
>             raise o.exc
>         else:
>             return o

Exactly. Except that it's going to be in C and checking the type can take
about a nanosecond: if (result->ob_type == ExceptionWrapperType). It's even
faster than the current code: if (Py_IsInstance(result, PyExceptionType))
that makes a function call and checks if the object is somehow descended 
from Exception. It's ok to check the type directly because this type is not
subclassable or even visible.

   Oren


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