Subject: Re: Prototype kernel continuation-passing for NetBSD
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/02/2004 03:07:56
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 00:05:44 +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> > At this point I could mumble about how kcont is (modulo the
> > limitations of C) isomorphic, to a Common-Lisp manual translation
> > into continuation-passing style (CSP) rather than true
> > Scheme-style continations.
> 
> Which is a good thing!  I wouldn't advocate being able to reify the
> current continuation in a place where you have resource constraints,
> like a kernel. :-)

Mmm, TCP stack that uses downward continuations to retransmit... ;)

SY, Uwe
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