Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Christian Tismer]

Will Ware wrote:
> 
> Konrad Hinsen (hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr) wrote:
> > Do I understand correctly that microthreads are handled completely in
> > the Python interpreter, with no OS support at all? In that case,
> > there is no way to profit from multiple processors, or even to let
> > other threads continue when one is waiting for I/O etc.
...
> I had intended microthreads to be useful for behavioral simulators
> where performance wasn't terribly critical. It's my understanding that
> Python's support for OS threads is quite good, but you probably already
> know a lot more about that than I do.

Right. Microthreads are lightweight, running inside of real
threads. What Konrad needs are real threads. He could go with
some mixture, but I can't see any profit from using microthreads
in this case. Especially multiple processors cannot make sense
without real threads.

cheers - chris

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