MiniD 2 - Might as well be done

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Tim Matthews<tim.matthews7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>
>> What kind of performance, you ask?  Well, almost every test I've run
>> kicks the crap out of Python, and is more in the ballpark of Lua.  The
>> only tests that don't quite measure up are those which are GC-heavy.
>
> How does it compare to stackless python at doing the tasks stackless was
> designed for and is good at? If not then have you ever considered such
> design goals? (Disclaimer: I haven't looked into pretty much anything about
> minid)

I'm not sure.  MiniD's coroutines are basic, but are the foundation on
which more complex behavior (schedulers, tasklets, pseudothreads,
continuations etc.) can be built.

I'd be interested in seeing maybe some Stackless benchmarks.  I could
port them to MiniD and see how they fare.