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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: technical implementation details in language interface
Message-ID: <:OJ5GQ9@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 23:37:44 GMT
References: <9008231801.AA27169@schizo> <F4F5.D@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <PCG.90Aug28162440@athene.cs.aber.ac.uk>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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(Why the "Allelulia"? I've been raving about making threads and coroutines
standard for ever).

In article <PCG.90Aug28162440@athene.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
> ... is the *only* way. To have threads, you *must* have continuations.

On reflection it appears they're almost equivalent concepts, at least
for user level threads implemented via coroutines. Threads with O/S support
have a bit more baggage attached, particularly if they're preemptive.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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