Re: [TCLCORE] Coroutines in HEAD

[Alexandre F. <ale...@gm...>]

Hello,

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Lars Hellström
<Lar...@re...> wrote:
> [suspend/resume, serialization of state]

Lars, aside from the discussion on the How, I'd like a bit more on  the Why.
Specifically, I fail to map  your "basic premise" example onto a
realistic engineering need.

Also, from time to time people hint at the fact that passing a
continuation or coroutine across the thread/interp boundary would be
Overly Cool, but again I'd like a few examples of what real problems
this would solve.

Notice that here I'm not concentrating on the coroutine/continuation
difference. One motivation is that I predict that the free-floating
(as in "unordered") refcounted "stack" frames will be teleported from
Miguel's mind to silicon in no time (considering the timescale of the
8.5 release ;-). So basically I assume that today's anchoring of
coroutine-sequels to the toplevel won't last long enough to be called
a limitation of the model !

-Alex