[Python-Dev] microthreading vs. async io (original) (raw)

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 14:17:03 CET 2007

On 2/15/07, Joachim König-Baltes <joachim.koenig-baltes at emesgarten.de> wrote:

dustin at v.igoro.us wrote: E.g. have a wait(events = [], timeout = -1) method would be sufficient for most cases, where an event would specify

I agree with everything except this. A simple function call would have O(n) cost, thus being unacceptable for servers with many open connections. Instead you need it to maintain a set of events and let you add or remove from that set as needed.

I have implemented something like the above, based on greenlets.

I assume greenlets would be an internal implementation detail, not exposed to the interface?

-- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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