From: Christian Tismer <tismer@tismer.com> To: python-announce-list@python.org Subject: Stackless goes Limbo Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:34:22 +0200 Hi all, after some time of consideration, I have decided to move the interface to Stackless Python's multitasking towards the ideas behind the Limbo Language. Besides the tasklets, there are "channel" objects, which allow for communication between tasklets. This approach is simple and powerful. Blocking of tasklets takes place on writes when no tasklet is listening, or on reads, when no data is available. There is some nice introduction to Limbo at http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html written by Brian W. Kernighan, one of the inventors of the C language. I hope to have a prototype ready by end of April. See the stackless homepage for more news, including the new sponsorship honor page at: <http://www.stackless.com/> -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@tismer.com> Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 pager +49 173 24 18 776 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list