Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Just van Rossum]

At 2:02 PM +0100 13-03-2000, Christian Tismer wrote:
>Even more, it is possible to run micro-threads in every
>real thread. For a real thread, microthreads are just
>Python code. Every thread state has its own microthread
>handler.

Wow: that'll sure cause some brain explosions here and there...

But: microthreads and select() seem a very cool combination!

(It would be interesting to know how microthreads perform compared to OS
threading as well as to no threading at all, just to see what the overhead
is.)

Go stackless!

Just