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0 pointsrdtsc13y ago0 comments

No magic there.

It is Eventlet and Gevent have that magic. Here is how that looks:

    def getresp():
        s = socket()
        s.connect((host,port))
        s.sendall(s,b'xyzzy')
        data = s.recv(s,100)

Compare that to any of the above. This is what is thrown away in favor of 'yield from' and @coroutine mess coupled with a completely parallel set of IO libraries.

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fzzzy13y ago

Well... There actually are a completely parallel set of IO libraries, it just happens that the interface can be identical to the existing blocking interfaces because of the greenlet stack slicing magic... So it only appears like there are not a completely parallel set of IO libraries.

But that's just a nitpick.

rdtscOP13y ago

> So it only appears like there are not a completely parallel set of IO libraries.

Right on. That's the great part -- both a simple way to program and re usability of libraries.

So far, I see library ecosystem fragmentation as the biggest issue of all and nobody seems to want to talk to it.

Academically all the yields and co-routines look so cool, in practice when you need 5 libraries to help with some task, and now you have to re-write them -- not so cool.

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