Re: CPS in C (was: Plea for a new old language / Trampolines)

[Mike Newhall <address@hidden>]

	It looks very fast.  Potential drawbacks are 1) your GC alg choices are somewhat constrained and 2) the "alloca hack" for resetting the stack pointer doesn't seem like a portable technique.


At 03:16 PM 2003.05.13 +0200, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
>In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, the way to do CPS in C
>is described in
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>http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html
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>and implemented in
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>http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken.html
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>It works quite well, and is roughly comparable in performance
>to pure trampoline-based systems, at least for mostly standard
>compliant Scheme.
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>cheers,
>felix
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