[Stackless] Google's new Go programming language

[Jeff Senn]

On Nov 23, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Andrew Francis wrote:
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>> I pictured it having an interface like:
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>> while True:
>>   selected_channel = select(quit_channel, request_channel)
>>   if selected_channel is quit_channel:
>>       return
>>   elif selected_channel is request_channel:
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> This is essentially how I would write it.  I would provide a
> list of channels and return a list of channels that are ready. For efficiency, I would provide an additional value, hint, to prevent
> the scheduler from tearing-down the structure when select returns.
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> readyList = select([channels], hint = True)
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> but for a start I would simply the interface to return a single channel.

Unfortunately that seems to create a race condition (opposed to the implementations
in other environments where the "select-like-operation" actually pops off the message).
[Unless you also propose a non-blocking receive...which would have other problems.... 
I haven't been following this  thread completely...]

Imagine the tasklet interrupted (by someone else receiving from the same channel) 
between the select and the following .receive(...)

> ...
> I understand your minimalist approach towards Stackless. However I think
> Stackless can evolve only so far without actual changes to the scheduler. Priorities involved a change to the scheduler. Again, I 

I do agree with this...

> believe PyPy provides an opportunity to prototype changes in a safe and fast way.
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> Cheers,
> Andrew
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