Re: [TCLCORE] Coroutines in HEAD

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

Lars, I'd really appreciate your answer to this.
Regards,
-Alex

On 8/27/08, Alexandre Ferrieux <ale...@gm...> wrote:
> 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
>