Re: SBCL Fibers proposal

On 13/3/26 10:59, mike thomas wrote:
> Hi Steve.
>
> I  pseudo-believe because an AI told me that Franz didn't have any 
> coroutines but that Clozure CL (CCL), it's descendant, does:

Mother of Lynn Conway, CCL isn't even a descendant of Franz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Common_Lisp#History_of_MCL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lisp#History

That coroutine repo wraps processes (CCL speak for "OS threads") with 
enough plumbing to yield/resume values between coroutines. It's a cute 
trick, but doesn't address the scalability issues one is trying to 
address by implementing coroutines (when you already have OS threads).



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