Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Joe Kraska]

Christian Tismer wrote:
>Courageous wrote:
>> Quite. I corresponded with the Kiev implementors a while
>> back, asking them why they hadn't added continuations to
>> Java. They responded back with "impossible on the JVM".
>
>Ah, this is the elixier. Gimme more impossibles, and I'll fly.

Well, of course what they meant was "impossible with
the current JVM". Their project set out to be JVM-
compatible. They implemented first class functions in
Java, closures, variadic argument support, and a variety
of other things and were still JVM-compatible. Given
the Lispishness of Kiev, I began to wonder if they'd
considered doing continuations. Continuations can be
very helpful in a modeling & simulation environment,
as it sometimes becomes necessary to do your own
scheduling in such environments. But they claimed that
the current JVM couldn't do it.

Sure would be nice if it could!




Joe Kraska
San Diego
Ca