Gr8. Have you written any code in stackless ? If you are familiar with it, we could plan for a meeting in the new year (reminiscent of good old days) where we can discuss coroutines, stackless and eventlets.
What say ? Regards --Anand On Dec 27, 2007 12:09 PM, gnuyoga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Continuing from my previous post, the context of which was eventlet, > > here is the reason why I was asking about it. > > > > I have been planning to rewrite HarvestMan using a non-blocking approach > > rather than the current design of achieving concurrency using multiple > > threads (which do not scale very well in Python). > > > > I have been evaluating twisted for sometime for doing this, but I have not > > been able to wrap my brain around twisted. Also the fact that twisted > > requires an explicit event loop call is not very good and makes it difficult > > to write an application which has its own separate event loop. > > > > Eventlets look promising because it is implemented using coroutines without > > an explicit event loop call, instead the event loop is run transparently > > when > > required. Also due to its design, it can be easily merged with Stackless, > > which > > I think it is already on the way to. > > > > Moreover, the sample code shows a crawler example, so there it is! > > > > I am looking at creating another implementation of HarvestMan based on > > eventlets rather than threads. This will run parallel to the regular > > HarvestMan. > > The plan is to write a crawler that scales very well w.r.t the number > > of requests > > and websites. > > > > Let me know if someone would like to be part of this. > > > > Thanks > > > > > + 1 > > am a g8 fan of stackless. will read about eventlet and get back 2 u. > > - sree > > > > -- > http://picasaweb.google.com/gnuyoga > > Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest the divine by > controlling nature, internal or external. Do this by work or worship or > psychic control or philosophy by one or more, or all of these and be free. > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- -Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
