On Apr 1, 7:57 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message > <d2733ede-4d66-40a2-9a63-60d5363db...@q16g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, Michele > > Simionato wrote: > > Excellent reading for everybody wanting to understand cooperative > > concurrency! > > Hey, some of us were doing "cooperative concurrency" programming old MacOS > for years. It was generally considered a poor alternative to "true > multitasking".
It is a poor alternative compared to OS level processes and even compared to preemptive threads in some cases. However, there are situations when you need thousands of lightweight threads of execution, and in that case coroutines could be the only viable solution. Just read David Beazley's presentation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
