On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:22 AM, B. Estrade estr...@gmail.com wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but are continuations the same thing as
co-routines, or is it more primitive than that?
Continuations are not the same thing as coroutines, although they can
be used to implement coroutines - in fact,
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:57:26AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Leon Timmermans faw...@gmail.com wrote:
Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to
implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency. They're
a solution to a
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote:
I've not used them, but Ruby 1.9 Fibers (continuations) and the
EventMachine Reactor pattern seem interesting.
Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to
implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Leon Timmermans faw...@gmail.com wrote:
Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to
implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency. They're
a solution to a different problem.
I would argue that concurrency isn't a problem
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:42:06PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote:
I've not used them, but Ruby 1.9 Fibers (continuations) and the
EventMachine Reactor pattern seem interesting.
Continuations and fibers are incredibly
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Damian Conway wrote:
What we really need is some anecdotal evidence from folks who are actually
using threading in real-world situations (in *any* languages). What has worked
in practice? What has worked well? What was painful? What was error-prone?
