[Stackless] Stackless and Psyco

[Mellon Gibson]

--- Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 1, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
> > Aaron Watters wrote:
> >
> >> */Mellon Gibson <bsdbeast at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
> >>     I can't get psyco to work with stackless,
> which is pretty critical
> >>     for my application, as it's a tad bit too
> slow right now (about to
> >>     11% speed improvement would suffice to serve
> all clients instead 
> >> of
> >>     buying new hardware). Both the client and
> server classes are
> >>     designed around GadflyB5, which needs some of
> the 30% speed
> >>     improvements I had with just vanilla python
> and psyco, but then 
> >> the
> >>     server tasks become too slow because of the C
> stack fumbling that
> >>     vanilla python does. Are there any plans to
> support psyco, is it 
> >> too
> >>     much work? I'm not very fond of the idea to
> buy brand new SMP
> >>     hardware to support just 300 more clients.
> /beast
> >
> > Hmm, I appreciate that you want to use Stackless,
> but
> > I don't see how this could make your program
> faster.
> > The overall C stack fumbling is almost the same as
> in
> > regular Python, just that I do less recursions.
> 
> Well, if you compare I/O bound code written in a
> blocking style using 
> Python threads, vs. I/O bound code written in a
> blocking style (with an 
> underlying asynchronous implementation) using
> Stackless there is 
> probably a GIGANTIC difference in performance and
> sanity.  The third 
> option is Just To Use Twisted, which can have 
> effects.addCallback(lambda: on.addCallback(lambda: 
> your.addCallback(lambda: sanity.addCallback(lambda: 
> as.addCallback(well))))).  A fourth option, I
> suppose, would be to use
> yield Yet
> yield Another
> yield Style
> yield of
> yield explicitly
> yield asynchronous
> yield socket
> yield code
> but I don't there there is a good framework that
> supports this quite 
> yet (I've personally integrated such a beast with
> Twisted, and PEAK 
> events is similar, so I know this approach does work
> and is a bit more 
> sane than "raw" Twisted).

I could give it a run by implementing Python wrapper
for libevent, and then use that from stackless?

/beast

> > And if you application needs 30% speedup from
> Psyco,
> > you are still about to loose with just a bit more
> clients.
> 
> This is the truth :)
> 
> -bob


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