Joe Marshall scripsit: > 2. First-class continuations should NOT be used as a model or > implementation of threads. (You can crudely mimic time-division > multiplexing, but not true asynchronous parallel computation.)
My personal view is that we want call/cc (or at the least semi-coroutines, which are equivalent to one-shot continuations), and we want fast cheap Posix-style processes. Threads-as-we-know-them are just a mess. -- Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, John Cowan is a tax on income. --Lord Macnaghten (1901) [email protected] _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
