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Re: flaming (Re: continuation and multi-threading)
Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:
> Sure, we want to have fast continuations, but we even more want to
> have a fast VM soon.
Normally I am all for that dev. model but in this case I think that
fast continuations should be requirement. Without them I can see the
day when app developers start to hack tagbody/go/catch/throw and all
that to circumvent guile's slow continuations. And don't forget that
almost all scheme implementations which translate scheme into native
code support cheap continuations. So I think it would be okay to make
the VM a little bit slower by breaking the stack into a chain of heap
allocated frames.
[I hope I can give a concrete solution until next monday]
Jost