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[Stackless] Re: [Python-Dev] Stackless Design Q.

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:00:50 -0500 
On 20 Feb 2002 at 16:01, Greg Ewing wrote:

[Christian's plea]

> It seems to me you need only two things:
> 
> (1) A constructor for new tasklets:
> 
>    t = tasklet(f)

[snip] 

> (2) A way of switching to another tasklet:
> 
>    t.transfer()

[snip]

> All the other stuff you talk about -- passing
> values between tasklets, rings of runnable tasklets,
> scheduling policies, etc -- can all be implemented
> in Python on top of these primitives. 

Unless you've got a way to detect or pass tasklet's through transfer, you don't have enough.

-- Gordon
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