Comments on: A gentle overview of Kamaelia or “it’s axon, stupid”

By: ckreutzer

ckreutzer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:03:28 +0000

same here. But instead of the multitask lib (which is indeed a nice piece of code) i found the eventlet lib to be coolest kid in the coroutine gang.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Eventlet

By: ckreutzer

ckreutzer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:03:28 +0000

same here. But instead of the multitask lib (which is indeed a nice piece of code) i found the eventlet lib to be coolest kid in the coroutine gang.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Eventlet

By: jnoller

jnoller — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:35:32 +0000

Added to my evaluation pile

By: Alec Thomas

Alec Thomas — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:13:15 +0000

Agreed on the "solving too much", I had the same opinion about Kamaelia. The "multitask" [1] module seemed to be a much more minimalist approach.

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/multitask/0.2.0

By: jnoller

jnoller — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:03:08 +0000

Yup. In fact I’ll be covering stackless and other coroutine/tasklets/etc as well. I know they’re different.

By: Richard Tew

Richard Tew — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:45:44 +0000

"Yes, coroutines/greenlets/tasklets - stop bothering me."

Enhanced generators are not equivalent to greenlets or Stackless tasklets. Greenlets and Stackless tasklets can yield the whole callstack, generators can only yield a frame or something equally limited.

This means that if you want to build something on top of generators used as much as they can be like coroutines, you're going to have to wrap it in boilerplate to do so.

Generators however, have a huge benefit over tasklets and greenlets, which is that they are in the standard library.

By: Sylvain Hellegouarch

Sylvain Hellegouarch — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:10:47 +0000

Thanks for linking to some of my projects.

jlib is an interesting one as it shows making Axon and PyQt4 work together is actually rather easy due to the similarities between inbox/signal|outbox/slot.

http://trac.defuze.org/browser/oss/jlib/jlib/co...