"Stackless" XEmacs?

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Apr 30 01:47:12 EDT 2008


Another interesting idea from emacs-devel.

dhruva writes:
 > If we are looking at concurrency, there is another paradigm based on
 > maintaining multiple internal function call stacks which a scheduler
 > can schedule in some fair fashion. I am talking of stackless Python
 > implementation. You really do not have multiple threads but get
 > simulated concurrency through stack switching. For IO intensive usage
 > using async IO with stackless might make a good candidate.
 > 
 > -dhruva



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