-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/15/10 10:22 , B. Estrade wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but are continuations the same thing as > co-routines, or is it more primitive than that? Also, doesn't this > really just allow context switching outside of the knowledge of a > kernel thread, thus allowing one to implement tasks at the user level?
Continuations are lower level; coroutines are one of many things you can implement with them. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAky5xRIACgkQIn7hlCsL25VNgQCgoaK28S7W2C6mMBrU9kpdmBUM 8UMAmQGaT/46BzW2nNXOsX/nf546QgoE =0ee6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----