From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: Nicolas Cannasse <warplayer@free.fr>,
Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr>,
Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Python's yield, Lisp's call-cc or C's setjmp/longjmp in OCaml
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:45:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031218064553.GA7948@davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312180103200.339-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:05:20AM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > Doing it using a closure is more difficult, since we need to reproduce the
> > stack using a data structure. That goes of course for all recursive data
> > structures.
> >
>
> Stupid question: would it be possible/usefull to have the yielding
> function run as a seperate thread of execution, in a produce/consumer sort
> of way?
Yes. But if the computation per context switch is low a large portion
of the CPU will be spent doing the context switches.
Dave
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-16 13:13 Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 13:28 ` Oleg Trott
2003-12-18 0:15 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 13:48 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-12-16 15:41 ` Kenneth Knowles
2003-12-16 16:45 ` Richard Jones
2003-12-16 18:36 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-12-16 18:42 ` Brian Hurt
2003-12-16 18:10 ` Dustin Sallings
2003-12-17 6:30 ` ijtrotts
2003-12-17 8:13 ` Dustin Sallings
2003-12-17 10:35 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-12-17 19:14 ` Pierre Weis
2003-12-17 19:32 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-12-17 20:04 ` David Brown
2003-12-18 1:14 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-12-18 5:31 ` David Brown
2003-12-18 7:05 ` Brian Hurt
2003-12-18 6:45 ` David Brown [this message]
2003-12-18 18:44 ` brogoff
2003-12-17 19:42 ` brogoff
2003-12-19 13:39 ` skaller
2003-12-18 0:51 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2003-12-16 18:06 Kevin S. Millikin
2003-12-18 22:08 Ker Lutyn
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