Stackless, thread paradigm and C extensions

[Frederic Giacometti]

"Michael Hudson" <mwh at python.net> wrote in message
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> "Frederic Giacometti" <frederic.giacometti at arakne.com> writes:
>
> [schnipp]
> > Does this make sense?
>
> But isn't the point of many multithreaded apps allowing code to run
> during blocking IO operations?  Your approach would knock that on the
> head.

In the proposed design, stackless call to another thread never blocks the
thread; it inserts a frame in one of the thread frame schedulers.
Just as all C functions external to the Python interpreter core, IO
functions run outside the interpreter thread.

FG