From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: Chet Murthy <chet@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: STARYNKEVITCH Basile <Basile.Starynkevitch@cea.fr>,
Joe Lisp <joelisp@yahoo.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: callcc/cps-style programming
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 04:14:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A365CEB.32964DE6@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200012091848.NAA01988@bismarck-chet.watson.ibm.com>
Chet Murthy wrote:
> As for lightweight threading, well, it's nice that you can implement
> them with continuations, but the real purpose of threading is to
> interface with some external source of events.
I disagree. The primary purpose of the notion of
logical thread of control is to isolate executing processes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-14 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2000-12-08 10:50 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-12-13 13:44 Dave Berry
2000-12-13 16:36 ` Chet Murthy
2000-12-14 19:20 ` T. Kurt Bond
2000-12-15 13:31 ` Martin Berger
2000-12-15 18:37 ` Julian Assange
2000-12-15 23:10 ` Chet Murthy
2000-12-14 19:08 forsyth
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