Re: Serialized continuation size

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:57:01AM -0700, Dan wrote:
> > continuations down to under a couple hundred bytes,
> > which would still be an awefully long URL. There are
> > security concerns also of course, since
> > the client could alter the continuation and do any
> > number of strange things.
> 
> Well, continuations will be compressed +
> cryptographically signed + base64-encoded.

Crypto signing itself would be 128-bits minimum, or about 16 base64 
chars, not counting your data.

> 
> > Except for the parts of active expressions on the
> > stack.
> 
> I'm not sure what that means practically. I'm talking
> about building a heap file for the entire application
> (including siscweb and the webapp code). In
> 
> (define (f x)
>   (display "Hi\n")
>   (+ 2 (g x)))
> 
> (define (g x)
>   (call/cc (lambda (cc)
>   ;; serialize cc ...
>             )
>   )
>   x)
> 
> would the serialized cc include bytecode for the
> expression (lambda (x) (+ 2 x))?
> 

Yeah, it would, minus the lambda perhaps.  


  Scott



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