[Stackless] Stackless API (Custom Scheduling)

[Christian Tismer]

Hilmar V. Pétursson wrote:

> As Chris points out we have used become() with great success, through out the passed 3 years.
> There are ~200 reference to become() in our Stackless Python scripts that make up the logic and rules of a ~35.000 player MMORPG world.
> We have had close to 7.000 players playing together in the same, fully 3D simulated, shared universe, so even though semantics might be unconventional, they sure do work once you align our mind to the power of Stackless :-)
> 
> Please don't take it out...

...

As we are at it:
What I *want* to take out is support for sending
exceptions to channels.
This was an early approach to kill somthing that's
waiting in a channel. I think this is no longer needed,
and it would clarify the code quite some bit.
Today, we have an explicit kill that can kill any
tasklet and even a cat. In summer 2002, I couldn't do that.

cheers - chris
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