[Python-Dev] Trial balloon: microthreads library in stdlib (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Sun Feb 11 22:28:08 CET 2007

Hi Martin,

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:09:29PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

> hacks into the core were complicated and he didn't even think > integration was worth it.

With emphasis on the latter. Christian never proposed (to my knowledge) that Stackless should be integrated. Of course, he didn't propose it because he assumed that proposal would be turned down, anyway.

The history as I remember it is that Christian tried hard to integrate the first versions of Stackless with CPython, but was turned town by python-dev.

On a side note, I also wrote "greenlets", which is a C extension module for the regular CPython that uses some code from Stackless to provide coroutines without changing the core. I have even built an experimental I/O library for it, which I'm using with some success, and I personally like the style; but I also know that it's a very subjective matter, so I'm happy to keep it outside the stdlib. As far as I gather from discussing with Christian, he has got a similar point of view.

Armin

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