[Stackless] Re: return values from tasklets
Christian Tismer
tismer at stackless.com
Thu Jan 29 20:10:16 CET 2004
Tom Locke wrote:
>>What you want is:
>>mytasklet = tasklet.new(foo)
>>mytasklet.letloose()
>>a = myownstufftodo.doit()
>>b = thatotherresult = mytasklet.wait()
>>return a,b
>
>
> Yep - this makes sense to me. wait() is sometimes called join(), as in
> join two threads into one. I was looking for this in stackless a while
> back.
>
> I guess you'll need to store the return value somewhere, in case the
> tasklet finishes before the call to wait(). Maybe this should be
> visible, as in:
Currently there is a multi-purpose field in tasklets, the tempval.
It has some special meaning during tasklet startup, but later
on it *is* actually used to store the current tasklet return
value in soft-switching, *and* it is used for data transfer
via channels.
It might make sense to just keep the data there, instead
of just decreffing it on tasklet_end. Some other code might
want to fetch the value before the tasklet is destructed.
This would be a quite trivial change.
ciao - chris
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