Amar, thank you very much for your thoroughly comment.
I was hoping I could avoid the extra effort of warping my mind around another challenging paradigm, but I was hoping wrong. :-) Thanks again. Giulio Cesare On 6/28/07, Arnar Birgisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/27/07, Giulio Cesare Solaroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a colleague has just pointed me to this post on Javascript threading: > > http://www.neilmix.com/2007/02/07/threading-in-javascript-17/ > > Interesting, kinda like Stackless Python but for javascript :) > > > I have to admit that I did not read the whole articole very careful, > > but I had the impression that the suggested solution, even if using > > different terms, was aiming at solving the same problem that Mochikit > > own Deferred objects solve. > > No, not really. Deferreds encapsulate the "promise of a future > result", along with goodness such as being cancelable, deferred > chaining etc. They're basically just a way to make callbacks easier to > handle. > > Now, callbacks can be used in many cases in place of generators - but > the powerful yield statement can do much more. > > I think it would be very hard to implement this trampolining way of > cooperative scheduling with callbacks - and deferreds wouldn't help > much. If I'm mistaken I'm sure someone will correct me. > > > If anybody can confirm this impression, I will be very pleased to skip > > the careful reading of the post, as I have already got quite confident > > using Deferred (after an inital pain) and I would be very happy to > > keep using them. > > Understanding trampolining generators and this "stackless" mode of > doing function calls is a pain to.. but I recommend reading and > thinking about it :) > > Arnar > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
