[Stackless] 'Stackliss' module

[Donovan Preston]

On May 2, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On May 2, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Josh Ritter wrote:
>> Anyone have a greenlet horror story?   How about omens and warnings?
>> Perhaps a little Stackless evangelism to share?
> Greenlets have two rather large caveats: no cyclic GC, and proper
> finalization is hard.  You can work around these things, but if you
> have a leak it's hard to track down.  Especially because they have
> very little debugger support (in either gdb or pdb).

The greenlet module has proven very reliable. As Bob says there is no  
cyclic GC but we haven't yet run into a problem with this. Also, I  
haven't had any problems using pdb with them. It appears you just  
can't step across calls to switch.

dp


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