Re: [Chicken-users] Other Cheney-MTA systems?

2010-11-13 Thread Felix
From: Peter Bex peter@xs4all.nl Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Other Cheney-MTA systems? Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:29:38 +0100 On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:23:41PM -0500, John Tobey wrote: Hi all, Anyone know of an active project or system other than Chicken that uses the machine's stack

Re: [Chicken-users] Other Cheney-MTA systems?

2010-11-13 Thread Peter Bex
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 02:26:42PM +0100, Felix wrote: Another language implementation using this method is not known to me, which is a pity. That may be caused because doing it this way is so unorthodox and because CPS compilers have become unfashionable. What is used instead of CPS nowadays?

Re: [Chicken-users] Other Cheney-MTA systems?

2010-11-13 Thread John Cowan
Peter Bex scripsit: What is used instead of CPS nowadays? The typical view is that it's more important to optimize normal calls and returns than calls to escape procedures, so a stack is used and then copied when call/cc is invoked. Chicken allocates stack frames on a first-generation heap,

[Chicken-users] Other Cheney-MTA systems?

2010-11-12 Thread John Tobey
Hi all, Anyone know of an active project or system other than Chicken that uses the machine's stack in a similar way? Curious, John ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users