== No more continuations? ==
I wish to mention that this artical is several years out of date. Stackless no longer supports continuations, as mentioned in a message posted by Christian Tismer to the Stackless Mailing list on March, 2004. Newer versions have light weight threads called tasklets. --Lenard Lindstrom 17:42, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
'' partially true ''
Well this is true in the sense that the article includes old
information. Continuations were the target of the first
implementations, later on I changed to the less powerful
but easier to understand taskletmodel, which is some kind of
one-shot continuations. Actually, this appears to be the only
kind of continuations commonly understood.
'' partially false ''
It is false in the sense that Stackless of course has
continuations in their full sense, that is you can
take a snapshot of a running program and start this
several times, concurrently. It is not directly supported
any longer, but running tasklets may be pickled.
It is upt o the user to load a stored tasklet from disk multiple
times. This is almost like full continuations, despite the
fact that the variables are not shared between the instances.
Christian Tismer, creator of Stackless Python -- 15:02, 18 August 2005
== Expanding on this page ==
I think that talking to the author of the following article
and reusing the bulk of it where it doesn't specifically apply
to game programming would allow a more extensive entry here:
http://harkal.sylphis3d.com/2005/08/10/multithreaded-game-scripting-with-stackless-python/
Richard Tew, user of Stackless Python
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