Stackless: 1,000,000 Switches in 0.6 seconds

Christian Tismer tismer at tismer.com
Fri Feb 22 10:14:46 EST 2002

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Sorry, I can't hold it back.

Not only that tasklets are smaller than expected, they
are also really fast.

I was stunned when I measured switching speed on an AMD Athlon XP 1500+
machine. A python script switched tasklets 1,000,000 times. The usual
Python call overhead was included. I measured this without switching and
got about 0.3 seconds. That means: Context switching by an automated,
internal scheduler without the interpreter overhead comes at the same
cost as a Python function call.

The website http://www.stackless.com/ has been updated again.
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