[Stackless] An idea for making Stackless more naturally usable

[Andrew Dalke]

Hi all,

   I worked some this evening improving Richard's stacklesssocket
module.  See the SVN commit logs in the sandbox for details.

Here's an example of using the monkey-patched module, to show what
"more naturally" might mean.

======
import sys
import stacklesssocket
import stackless

sys.modules["socket"] = stacklesssocket

import urllib
import time

def download(uri):
     t1 = time.time()
     f = urllib.urlopen(uri)
     s = f.read()
     t2 = time.time()
     print "Downloaded", uri, "in", "%.1f" % (t2-t1), "seconds"
     return t2-t1


print " === Serial === "
t1 = time.time()
download("http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Tasklets")
download("http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Channels")
t2 = time.time()
print " --->", t2-t1

print " === Parallel === "
t1 = time.time()
stackless.tasklet(download)("http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Tasklets")
stackless.tasklet(download)("http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Channels")
stackless.run()
t2 = time.time()
print " --->", t2-t1

======

Same code for serial and parallel versions.  Here's example
output clearly showing that they are serial and parallel.  (Don't
ask me why the stacklesssocket works correctly even when I
haven't done a stackless.run() -- I'm still new at stackless.)


% spython async_fetch.py
  === Serial ===
Downloaded http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Tasklets in 2.6 seconds
Downloaded http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Channels in 2.7 seconds
  ---> 5.34717988968
  === Parallel ===
Downloaded http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Channels in 4.0 seconds
Downloaded http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Tasklets in 5.4 seconds
  ---> 5.43875193596

% spython async_fetch.py
  === Serial ===
Downloaded http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Tasklets in 2.6 seconds
Downloaded http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Channels in 2.7 seconds
  ---> 5.32963705063
  === Parallel ===
Downloaded http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Channels in 2.2 seconds
Downloaded http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Tasklets in 2.7 seconds
  ---> 2.71087312698



					Andrew
					dalke at dalkescientific.com


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