Comment by podunkPDX
> You won’t be writing a 3D FPS game engine in Python
While Eve Online isn’t an FPS, it is an MMORPG written in stackless Python, and seems to be doing OK.
> You won’t be writing a 3D FPS game engine in Python
While Eve Online isn’t an FPS, it is an MMORPG written in stackless Python, and seems to be doing OK.
It was, once.
Nowadays (for about 12 years already I think) there is nothing much stackless about it.
The concept was nice. Stackless and greenlets.. yess. But the way they rewrote C stack just killed caches. Even a naive reimplementation just using separate mmapped stacks and wrapping the whole coro concept under then-Python's threading module instantly gained like 100x speedup on context switch loads like serving small stuff over HTTP.
Edit: Though at this point it didn't much differ from ye olde FreeBSD N:M pthread implementation. Which ended badly if anyone can remember.