Re: Practical uses of stackless technology

Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote:
> Hi stackless-dev!
> 
> As some of you might know, the PyPy project is aiming at including many
> of stackless' features into its Python interpreter. Most of them are now
> implemented and we're now working on the report we are writing for the
> EU about this part of our work.
> 
> Being technical hacker types, we can cope with describing the ins and
> outs of how our code works, but are less sure on the motivations for
> stackless-style technologies as used in real-world applications :)
> (especially since this part of PyPy is not used for any applications
> yet).
> 
> So this is where we come to you, the existing stackless community: why
> are you interested in stackless? What benefits does it bring to you and
> your business? (the EU always likes to hear that businesses are using
> things :)
> 
> As well as the more general stackless ideas (tasklets, channels, etc) we
> are interested in hearing about any use people are making of the tasklet
> pickling features.
> 
> It would be wonderful if we could get some nice quotable, attributable
> snippets, but general ideas would also be very welcome.
> 
> Cheers and thanks,
> 
> mwh & Carl Friedrich Bolz
> 

argh! completely wrong list of course. Very sorry for the noise.