ATCT vs. PicoThreads (Was: Re: A Patent on Continuations?)

[Vadim Nasardinov <address@hidden>]

Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
 > > Avi Bryant wrote:
 > >
 > > Before everyone gets up in arms - I'm pretty sure that the patent
 > > mentioned is not for the concept of continuations, but for a
 > > particular implementation technique: using a metacircular bytecode
 > > interpreter to allow certain portions of a program to capture
 > > first class continuations even though the underlying VM (in this
 > > case, Java's) doesn't support them.
 >
 >
 > Indeed, and that is somewhat "new".

To my admittedly untrained eye, Velare's Asynchronous Transfer of
Control Threading (ATCT) looks remarkably similar to PicoThreads
(http://www.google.com/search?q=PicoThreads).