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- From: roberts@angelo.amd.com (Dave Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Implementing continuations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.010732.4586@amd.com>
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA
- References: <FEELEY.92Dec14215701@zohar.ai.mit.edu> <4067@mitech.com> <1992Dec15.201735.21731@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:07:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.201735.21731@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
- >I would have thought that the primary issue was keeping the
- >interpreter code area in cache? And, of course, using memory
- >mapping to implement continuations.
-
- Speaking of which, how do most Scheme implementations handle
- continuations. I started thinking about this and couldn't think of a
- very easy way to deal with it. Exactly what state must be saved? How
- is the stack handled? How do you use memory mapping to implement
- continuations?
-
- Dave Roberts
- david.roberts@amd.com
-