I have pinged Geert Bevin (RIFE) and James Strachan and both are willing to help on an EG, but to my knowledge neither is a real expert on the subject. To do this right would require finding the real experts and requirements =)
Anyone know anyone (or happen to be someone) who is widely familiar with continuations as a language feature, who has spare time (ha!), and might be interested in seeing them go native in Java?
Thanks in advance,
-Brian
On Jul 7, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Tony Collen wrote:
James Strachan writes [1]:
"Spent a great afternoon & evening with John Rose from Sun (compiler & VM team), who's on the Groovy JSR - we've managed to figure out many of the gremlins in the language. Plus I learnt quite a bit about the JVM. e.g. it might not be that hard to implement continuations at the JVM level! Apparently the JVM already does a kind of continuation internally for optimising bytecode - so if you want native continuations, hassle the good folks at Sun & raise some bug reports, maybe we can persuade them to sneak it into 1.6 :). Native Java continuations would totally rock - and avoid all that inefficient bytecode swizzling we'd have to do to implement continuations on top of the JVM."
[1] http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2004/07/07.html#a490
Regards,
Tony
