[Stackless] unexpected tasklet & channel behaviour

ardatur ardatur at mail.ru
Thu Nov 2 08:02:15 CET 2006


Hello Richard,

Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 1:01:19 PM, you wrote:

RT> There is a logic to this behaviour.

RT> ...

RT> The interpreter internals, but only for executing that expression.  But
RT> what if the blocking on the receive is soft switching?  That receive
RT> is effectively finished and the tasklet is blocked only waiting for
RT> something to send it a return value, but the stack unwinds and all
RT> now unused objects like the channel are freed as nothing really holds
RT> a reference to them.

Ah, that explains the last bit. I actually thought of blocking as of
something happening _inside_ the receive() call, thus the confusion.

-- 
Many thanks,
Vladimir Pozdyayev


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