Stackless python and microthreads

[Michael Walter]

Just wrote:
> In article <2gk1k2F3li0jU1 at uni-berlin.de>,
>  Michael Walter <cm at leetspeak.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Just wrote:
>>
>>>In article <2gjokgF3mvvdU1 at uni-berlin.de>,
>>> Michael Walter <cm at leetspeak.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Would you have an idea on how a higher-level replacement for 
>>>>continuations in web application development? I'm excited (and _not_ 
>>>>being any sarcastic or stuff, honestely!).
>>>
>>>Co-routines.
>>
>>Would you care to elaborate? Can you store the state of a coroutine and 
>>resume it multiple times?
> 
> 
> You can resume a co-routine multiple times just like you can resume 
> generators mutliple times, but that's something completely different 
> from restarting a continuation multiple times.
Well, I think you would want to resume it multiple times based on a 
given state (essentially like resuming a stored continuation).

> When you mentioned continuations for web programming, I assumed you 
> meant their ability to turn flow control inside out (allowing to write 
> event-based networking code in a more natural way). Co-routines are a 
> much nicer abstraction for that than continuations.
Would you have some links/papers for me in regard to web programming and 
coroutines? Some quick googling didn't bring anything up (but maybe I'm 
just too tired).

What I meant was using continuations for "linear" code flow, such as 
mentioned in 
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg02456.html, 
described in http://www.double.co.nz/scheme/modal-web-server.html and 
applied in Seaside, Borges, PLT Web Server etc.

Cheers,
Michael