[plt-scheme] coroutine versus stream

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On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jim Bender <benderjg2 at aol.com> wrote:
> I believe the reference is to Carolyn Talcott's dissertation "The essence of
> Rum: A theory of intensional and extensional aspects of Lisp-type
> computation". Stanford, 1986. Unfortunately this is not available online, as
> far as I know.
> Jim
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:54 PM, "Jos Koot" <jos.koot at telefonica.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Matthias,
> I did a quick search for Talcott 1986, but got so many hits relevevant info
> is hidden like a leaf on a sound tree.
> Can you be more specific? Thanks
> Jos
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matthias Felleisen
> To: Jos Koot
> Cc: plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 11:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] coroutine versus stream
>
> It is indeed a well-known fact that streams and coroutines are two sides of
> the same coin. Talcott's 1986 dissertation is the earliest theoretical
> treatment that I know. -- Matthias
>
>
> On Apr 18, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Jos Koot wrote:
>
> It seems to me that in many cases the same problem can be solved (for an
> eager evaluater) both by coroutines and by streams. Both solutions very well
> show the structure of the principal algorithm as might have been written
> with a lazy evaluator in mind. Which approach would be preferred in terms of
> efficiency (time and memory). May be you would like to address other aspects
> as well. One reason that makes me tend to choose streams, is that the latter
> seem better suited to automatic code generation from purely lazy code.
> Thanks, Jos
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