Python microthreads

[Will Ware]

I have been interested in using Python to program simulated
swarms of interacting agents. For this purpose, I have implemented
what I call "microthreads" in Python, modifying Python's virtual
machine, and maintaining a frame stack for each thread. I have
successfully run 1500 threads simultaneously. Source code and some
example usages are available at
ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/wware/uthread.tgz
for anybody interested in this. This is a pre-pre-thinking-about-
alpha-some-day release, and probably buggy, but the examples run
as expected.
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Will Ware	email:    wware @ world.std.com