Running Python on a MOSIX cluster

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Wed Aug 29 10:08:24 EDT 2001


In article <3b8cb023$0$1816$9b622d9e at news.freenet.de>,
Guido Stepken  <stepken at little-idiot.de> wrote:
>
>Python 2.1.1 IMHO is stackless python ....green threads means, that python 
>interpreter itself is doing multitasking. Older versions 1.5, 1.6 ... need 
>kernel-threads - so older versions may spread over the mosix cluster.

That is incorrect; Python 2.1.1 still uses kernel threads, and I believe
Stackless has not yet been ported to Python 2.1.1.
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