Re: [stack] Status of Cat and CVML

Christopher Diggins <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am also working on adding portable continuations to Cat and CVML. I
> expect to have the first prototype done by mid-February at the latest.
> There are opcodes being introduced into the bytecode to allow
> continuations (implemented by cloning the current VM state) to be
> created, cloned, and serialized over a stream or network. In addition
> I am adding an event passing mechanism to allow VM instances to
> communicate safely and asynchronously.

Nice! Parallelism will be important, and it looks like this might
possibly help that.

OTOH, I'm curious -- have you looked at partial continuations?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimited_continuation

"Unlike regular continuations, delimited continuations return a value,
and thus may be reused and composed."

> - Christopher

-Wm