What is greenlet?
The greenlet tool provides a lightweight, in-process approach to concurrent programming in Python. It offers a flexible coroutine implementation that allows developers to create and manage multiple execution flows within a single process, enabling efficient utilization of system resources. The greenlet library simplifies the development of concurrent and asynchronous applications by providing a straightforward API for creating, switching, and controlling lightweight tasklets. This tool is particularly useful for building high-performance network applications, I/O-bound workloads, and other scenarios where traditional thread-based concurrency models may fall short. Developers can leverage greenlet's features to implement cooperative multitasking, cooperative multithreading, and other concurrency patterns, tailoring the application's architecture to their specific requirements
Highlights
- Lightweight coroutine implementation for efficient in-process concurrency
- Straightforward API for creating, switching, and controlling tasklets
- Enables cooperative multitasking and cooperative multithreading
- Suitable for building high-performance network applications and I/O-bound workloads
- Flexible and customizable concurrency patterns to meet application requirements