[Stackless] priority patch
andrewfr_ice at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 5 22:08:55 CET 2009
--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:
> Yes, with t.priority=True, starvation _can_ occur. consider this:
This the problem with priority scheduling in general.
> I plan on trying to do this in a slightly different manner
> now. As a first step, I'll abstract away the current
> round-robin scheduling behind some central scheduling API so
> that we can then later add stuff such as priority without
> modifying other parts of Stackless.
This sounds like a great strategy.
> Stackless has been unchanged for some years now, and I do
> think we need to keep it alive by continuing its
> development, adding features, perhaps creating a
> stackless.tools module, etc.
Yes it is about time Stackless evolves. A part of the solution
is to add tools, i.e., a debugger. Another part of the solution
is new language features - I don't see why Stackless could not
add new language features, for instance event handlers. Also for
once and for all, some real analysis concerning I/O.
Again, I don't see why the following approach could not be used -
prototype features in PyPy. If necessary move the feature to C based
Stackless Python until that day, PyPy is fast enough to do away with
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