Microthreads without Stackless?

[Bryan Olson]

M.E.Farmer wrote:

 > David Mertz covered this. :)
 >     'Implementing "weightless threads" with Python generators.'
 >     http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b7.html

And, to put it provocatively, David Mertz got it wrong.

As Mertz notes, generators can only transfer control to their
immediate callers.  His solution of always calling them from a
scheduler is no solution at all; they still only transfer to
their immediate caller, and that caller is further restricted to
be the scheduler.

Mertz's pattern provides nothing like real co-routines or
threads, and the reliance on a scheduler has essentially nothing
to do with that.  Real co-routines or threads can yield from
anywhere.  Most importantly, they yield when calling for I/O.
The call-depth could be any; the import point is that whenever
one routine blocks to wait for an event, other routines can
still run.


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--Bryan