[Stackless] Mixing os threads and stackless

[Lars Immisch]

Hi,

> Also, I might need to correct myself, I meant Python thread, not OS 
> threads.
> 
> (Not sure that that distinction matter, as I understand it, OS threads
> (created in C for instance) needs to be made into Python threads to be 
> used anyway!?)

A Python thread (created from C with pthread_create or beginthread, or 
through the threading or thread module) *is* an OS thread with a 
separate stack.

A thread created through the threading module has a bit more per-thread 
state information, but for the most part, it is just an OS thread.

And these threads, by virtue of having separate stacks, can call 
separate, blocking, C functions at the same time. So they could both be 
in a socket.recv() at the same time, for example.

A stackless tasklet is *not* an OS thread, and all tasklets share a 
single C stack.

As a consequence, two cannot be in a socket.recv() at the same time.

This isn't necessarily a problem, mind you, because sockets can be 
non-blocking, for example, or, better, you hide a reactor (something 
that does a poll() or select() and demultiplexes events) in your 
stackless application and use the stacklet channel primitives to 
dispatch the events.

- Lars

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