python simply not scaleable enough for google?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Nov 20 16:45:04 EST 2009


In article <de86d30e-c9c1-4d30-9e62-d043b78ea070 at a31g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
sturlamolden  <sturlamolden at yahoo.no> wrote:
>
>Also note that Windows has native support for "taskelets", regardless
>of language. They are called "fibers" (as opposed to "threads") and are
>created using the CreateFiber system call. I would not be surprised if
>Unix'es has this as well. We do not need Stackless for light-weight
>threads. We can just take Python's threading modules' C code and
>replace CreateThread with CreateFiber.

Are you advocating a high-fiber diet?
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