[plt-scheme] 301.5

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 6 13:47:16 EST 2006

At Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:43:35 +0200, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >  * For nested captured continuations, the shared continuation tail is
> >    now represented by shared data (instead of separate copies for each
> >    continuation).
> 
> Very cool. Presumably continuations are now represented as linked stack
> frames. 

No. It's still a copy of a flat stack, but copy segments can be
chained.

> Does this mean that the basic machinery required for native
> support of shift/reset is now in place?

Well, that's probably true, anyway (since threads need much the same
machinery). I expect to add some form of delimited continuation in the
near future.

Matthew



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