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Alternatives to Stackless Python?

Christian Tismer tismer at stackless.com
Wed Sep 28 21:05:44 EDT 2005 
Peter Hansen wrote:

> simonwittber at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>>>I found LGT http://lgt.berlios.de/ but it didn't seem as if the
>>>NanoThreads module had the same capabilites as stackless.
>>
>>What specific capabilities of Stackless are you looking for, that are
>>missing from NanoThreads?
> 
> 
> While I can't speak for the OP, isn't it the case that the threadlets in 
> Stackless (sorry, don't know what they are really called) are true 
> threads in the sense of being able to switch contexts no matter how far 
> down in a set of nested calls they might be?  And that NanoThreads are 
> simply generators, which means you can switch contexts only at the top 
> level, with a yield statement?
> 
> I don't know what the OP wants, but I could imagine that would be a 
> pretty fundamental difference (if I'm right about Stackless).

You are.

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