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Re: flaming (Re: continuation and multi-threading)

Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@calvados.zrz.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu> writes:
> 
> > It actually slowed down the VM by almost 50.  
> 
> Hmm, my code isn't finished yet, --- I am looking for a paper called
> "Implementation Strategies for Continuations" but wasn't able to find
> it --- ,

Dybvig's paper is at:
<http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/papers/stack.ps>, in case somebody's
interested and is not an ACM member.

> but I don't think allocating all closures on the heap is that
> much expensive.

the paper argues that it is, but only experimentation can tell for
sure.

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