Recently I read Charming Python: Implementing Weightless Threads (http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pythrd.html) by David D.
I'm not an authority on threading architectures so I'd like to ask the following: 1)What is the difference (in terms of performance, scalability,[insert relevant metric here]) between microthreads and "system" threads? 2)If microthreads really are superior then why aren't they the standard Python implementation (or at least within the standard library)? (where my assumption is that they are not the standard implementation and are not contained within the standard library). ps. I fear that my questions and assumptions about threading may be rather naive. If they are, it's because I haven't yet done any significant research. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
