From: "T. Kurt Bond" <tkb@tkb.mpl.com>
To: Chet Murthy <chet@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Berry <dave@kal.com>,
STARYNKEVITCH Basile <Basile.Starynkevitch@cea.fr>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: callcc/cps-style programming
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:20:53 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14905.7573.233207.196188@tkb.mpl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200012131636.LAA02306@bismarck-chet.watson.ibm.com>
Chet Murthy writes:
> I'm not saying that threads are bad. Rather, what I'm saying is,
> there is little need, in a language like CAML, for _user-level_
> threads. Kernel threads, you need, for talking to DB2 or Oracle.
> Period. But user-level threads, implemented in the language, don't
> give you much value. Much better to do some sort of explicit (perhaps
> semi-automated) CPS-conversion, and use an event-dispatcher.
>
> Amongst other things, at least, you'll never have to worry about being
> time-sliced where you didn't expect it.
Hmmm. Well, try telling the Erlang folks that super-lightweight
user-level processes aren't useful. Or the Gambit Scheme folks: their
next release has lightweight threads built on call/cc. (Note: these
two things may be related.)
http://x58.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=622079764&CONTEXT=976821773.388825093&hitnum=0
http://www.ericsson.se/cslab/projects/etos.shtml
--
T. Kurt Bond, tkb@tkb.mpl.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-15 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-13 13:44 Dave Berry
2000-12-13 16:36 ` Chet Murthy
2000-12-14 19:20 ` T. Kurt Bond [this message]
2000-12-15 13:31 ` Martin Berger
2000-12-15 18:37 ` Julian Assange
2000-12-15 23:10 ` Chet Murthy
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2000-12-14 19:08 forsyth
2000-12-06 20:13 Joe Lisp
2000-12-07 8:31 ` STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2000-12-09 3:58 ` eijiro_sumii
2000-12-09 18:48 ` Chet Murthy
2000-12-12 17:14 ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-08 10:50 ` Xavier Leroy
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