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- Subject: Re: continuations, was Re: Google Summer of Code 2011
- From: Alex Queiroz <asandroq@...>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:34:24 -0300
Hallo,
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
>
> The weird performance implications caused by first-class continuations are
> the need for a garbage-collected stack, or an expensive stack-copy
> operation when a continuation is used in a difficult manner.
>
Several implementations of first-class continuations only have an
extra cost if you use them. Even so, full, unbounded stack copies are
the most naive implementation and not used in good compilers.
--
-alex
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