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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Threads vs... not
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 18:41:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_SAJv5N5CDEo-0Co0bqx0AU+4iJOa_ct80+ypTA7V59WQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210804220208.GK9074@mcvoy.com>

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On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:02 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:


>      A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't
> program
>      state machines.
>
>      Alan Cox


Orly?  Try embedding an LL(1) parser in an event loop that gives you a new
event every time a block is read off the disk.

Event loops are just manual CPS transformations of coroutines -- but why do
the transformation manually instead of having your compiler do it for you?

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-04 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-04 21:48 Lawrence Stewart
2021-08-04 22:02 ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-04 22:41   ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-08-04 22:51     ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-05 20:32       ` Clem Cole
2021-08-06  0:55       ` Dan Cross
2021-08-04 22:13 ` Anthony Martin
2021-08-05 23:02 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-06 14:19   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-08-06 14:43     ` John Cowan
2021-08-06 15:12       ` Steffen Nurpmeso

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