Re: [Twisted-Python] PDF I thought may be of interest

2008-12-13 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Manlio Perillo [2008-12-13 11:54:05 +0100]: > gl...@divmod.com ha scritto: > >> For another, the paper arbitrarily redefines the word "threads" to mean >> "this cool thing that doesn't exist yet", rather than existing things >> that people call "threads". It specifically mentions the defici

Re: [Twisted-Python] PDF I thought may be of interest

2008-12-13 Thread Manlio Perillo
gl...@divmod.com ha scritto: On 10:06 pm, m...@cerenity.org wrote: [...] For another, the paper arbitrarily redefines the word "threads" to mean "this cool thing that doesn't exist yet", rather than existing things that people call "threads". It specifically mentions the deficiencies of curr

Re: [Twisted-Python] PDF I thought may be of interest

2008-12-09 Thread glyph
On 10:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking slightly below the surface of things, it appears to be advocating something more like stackless's tasklets, rather than OS level threads (since it makes reference near the end to Erlang's threading model). Yes, and for this reason I found the pape

[Twisted-Python] PDF I thought may be of interest

2008-12-09 Thread Michael
Hi, I came across this livejournal entry today: * http://four.livejournal.com/934085.html Which has this link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20081209/threads-hotos-2003.pdf .. which is a paper by Rob von Behren, Jeremy Condit and Eric Brewer. I personally raised an eyebrow when I