Stackless Platform Independence?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Mar 4 11:15:52 EST 2002


Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> writes:

> Makes pretty much sense to me.
> Stackless can provide light-weight threads to all platforms.
> There is no need to use OS threads unless you need it
> for I/O.

The idea I think Frederic was getting at was to automatically use OS
threads for IO.  I don't know if that would be possible, but it might
be cool.

Cheers,
M.

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