[Stackless] Planning Stackless Lite

Christian Tismer tismer at stackless.com
Mon Feb 1 22:35:55 CET 2010


On 2/1/10 10:13 PM, Richard Tew wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Denis Bilenko<denis.bilenko at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Is there a chance of having a greenlet interface implemented in Stackless Lite?
>> greenlet extension that we have now has not been maintained for a
>> while and there
>> are libraries that depend on it.
>>      
> This sounds a bit strange to me.  What maintenance are greenlets not
> getting?  The advantage they have over Stackless, is that they are an
> extension that does not need to be maintained.  The only work they
> require is additional assembler files for additional platforms.
>
> Besides changing the implementation I am not sure what this would give
> Greenlets that they do not already have.
>

If I am successful with the Stackless Lite approach, then a greenlet module
could be faster, and support pickling...

ciao -- chris

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