[pypy-dev] Re: [pypy-svn] r18743 - pypy/dist/pypy/module/stackless

[Bengt Richter]

At 03:01 2005-10-19 +0200, Christian Tismer wrote:
[.. stuff about continuation thing (call it a continuable to differentiate? (LC: adjective ;-)

Just ran across this post in comp.lang.scheme, in case it is relevant (haven't
read either reference yet, though they sound interesting)...
(quoting also selected headers) ...

>Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme
>Subject: Continuation paper
>From: Joe Marshall <jmarshall at alum.mit.edu>
>Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:28:36 -0400
>Message-ID: <3bnf7akr.fsf at alum.mit.edu>

>At ICFP 2005 Greg Pettyjohn presented a paper that he co-wrote with
>John Clements, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Matthias Felleisen, and myself
>that shows how to implement first-class continuations without
>requiring full stack inspection.  The paper describes how one might
>implement first-class continuations in Java or C# by transforming the
>source code rather than hacking the underlying VM.
>
>Since the paper needed to be really brief, the details of the
>transformation were omitted.  I have put up a much more detailed
>description (with code samples and everything) at
>
>  http://home.comcast.net/~prunesquallor/stackhack4.html
>
>The ICFP paper can be found at
>
>  http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/icfp05-pcmkf.pdf

Regards,
Bengt Richter