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Re: continuations over the network



>>>>> "Francois-Rene" == Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org> writes:

Francois-Rene> >>: Scott McKay <swm@itasoftware.com>
>>> can these first-class continuations take advantage of multiple
>>> processors?  Via SMP?  Over a network?

Francois-Rene> >: Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
>> Sure.  In fact, Kali Scheme did the networked case.

Francois-Rene> Problem is, Kali did so much for you that you had
Francois-Rene> little control.  If you want a system where the
Francois-Rene> programmer can explicitly reify continuations and
Francois-Rene> migrate them over the network, try David Alan Halls'
Francois-Rene> Tube.

Huh?  (Not that this is pertinent to Scott's question.)  Reification
and migration are explicit operations in Kali as well.  (Reification
is an explicit operation in Scheme per se.)

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