Re: [Chicken-users] Continuations, control flow, and F-operator

Thanks John, that helped a lot. On Sun, Dec 13, 2015, 23:56 John Cowan wrote: > Josh Barrett scripsit: > > > I mean, I know call/cc is fast in chicken, but is it that fast, or is > > F-operator using some chicken specific implementation that I don't know > > about? > >

[Chicken-users] Continuations, control flow, and F-operator

... So, how does F-operator even exist? It's an egg that implements delimited continuations, that much I know, but HOW? IIRC, it's only possible to implement delimited continuations in pure scheme if all control flow is implemented in continuations. So is that what chicken does? I mean, I know

Re: [Chicken-users] Continuations, control flow, and F-operator

Josh Barrett scripsit: > I mean, I know call/cc is fast in chicken, but is it that fast, or is > F-operator using some chicken specific implementation that I don't know > about? No, it isn't. Calling an escape procedure from call/cc is as fast in Chicken as calling a "normal" procedure (which