what sorta moat do you have now that openai’s got eyes?
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Why should somebody who wants to use threading have to know how to write a preemptive scheduler? If you want a tutorial in addition to the library thats fine, but many good tutorials also release their code as libraries. In open source world, releasing code as a library does not mean having to keep people from understanding the workings of that code. Why should people HAVE to learn how the code works to use it though?
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/forkable-monad/0...
Also, this doesn't implement some stuff from gevent, it implements some stuff over and using gevent.
If I'd had the option to switch us to stackless easily, and I could guarantee it was as fast, worked with all the libraries, and was as stable, I probably wouldn't have written this. I imagine that there are a lot of people in the same boat, where switching interpreters isn't really an option.
But what a "thing" and how long a period is are up for grabs. If we choose period to be anything longer than 1 millisecond, then this library will finish executing both things in that time period.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-pa...
There is a version in the history that used Greenlet instead of gevent which was potentially a bit less delicate, but it required wrapping of the main file and didn't work with time.sleep, and I didn't feel like it was worth writing my own locks, semaphores, mutexes, pipes and whatnot.