newbie ocaml and delimited continuations

["atkinson julian" <julian.atkinson71@gmail.com>]

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hello all,

I am a newbie currently learning ocaml and am particularly interested in the
new continuations package.

there is announcement here - which include a tarball source patch.
(Persistent twice-delimited continuations and CGI programming)
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/cac8628ae8ef191d

The value of continuations and coroutines are that they make it trivial to
map asynchronous operations to synchronous programming models , they have
general application in network stacks/ generators and simulation models. (ie
the benefit of threads without the locking and context switching cost). My
questions are as follows.

Is it likely that this package may be incorporated into a later official
relase of ocaml (ie receive first class support ) ?. continuations would
appear to offer considerable programming expressiveness even if not widely
supported in other languages (cf scheme).

And a very basic tech question - It is obviously necessary that the package
runs as interpreted bytecode - so that the activation record of the
function/closure may be saved/serialized off. However, in general is it
possible to mix and match ocaml code compiled with the native opt compiler,
with compiled bytecode ? Additionally would there be any caveats in trying
to do this using this continuations package. Note that i have not yet got to
functor/modules in my self-learning where i suspect the general aspect of
this question would be explained but am trying to ancipate a bit in advance.

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