Re: Tomcat or PHP in ST ?

Ah, thanks for the info.  Is there a plan to put continuations in some other 
way then?  Seaside did the stack copy trick just to simply have 
continuations, but if another way was provided, I'm sure it would work as 
well.

>From: prunedtree <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: Strongtalk-general <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Tomcat or PHP in ST ?
>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 00:41:36 -0000
>
>
>The issue is mainly that it uses dialect-specific code
>(thisContext...), not the semantics it uses.
>
>There are going to be some limits to continuation support in
>strongtalk simply because strongtalk supports callbacks, and thus you
>can get volatile frames on the stack. Expecting that you can blindly
>serialize anything in a system that interacts with the external world
>doesn't sound like a good idea.
>
>On May 13, 9:45 pm, "Jim Haungs" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The entire continuation mechanism in Seaside is about 30 lines of code. 
>The
> > only VM trick it depends on is capturing thisContext and then restoring 
>it
> > later.
> >
> > On 5/13/07, J J <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > >From: "David Griswold" <[email protected]>
> > > >Reply-To: [email protected]
> > > >To: <[email protected]>
> > > >Subject: RE: Tomcat or PHP in ST ?
> > > >Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:48:58 +0200
> >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of azgolfer
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:24 PM
> > > > > To: Strongtalk-general
> > > > > Subject: Re: Tomcat or PHP in ST ?
> >
> > > > > So, how hard would it be to port SeaSide to Strongtalk ? Seems 
>like
> > > > > you wouldn't need the GUI. Also, what kind of scalability/
> > > > > multithreading does SeaSide have ?
> >
> > > >The issue with Seaside is that it serializes the context stack to 
>model
> > > >continuations, which is definitely not what I would call trivially
> > > portable
> > > >Smalltalk.
> >
> > > >-Dave
> >
> > > Can Strongtalk do this?  Or support continuations in some other way?
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jason
> >
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