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How is Stackless Python different than Guido Van Rossum's Python?
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The simple answer is that Stackless is a concurrent implementation of vanilla Python. Its big feature is microthreads or "tasklets", which are managed by the interpreter and not the operating system. This can avoid a lot of the overhead of traditional threads.
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