Re: [Chicken-users] Continuations in C

[felix winkelmann]

On 9/9/05, Daniel B. Faken <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I just ran across this and thought it might be useful/interesting for
> Chicken:
>   From http://luajit.luaforge.net/coco.html:
> "Coco is a small extension to get True C Coroutine semantics for Lua 5.1.
> 

Yes this is clever. I thought about using makecontext/setcontext
(patching setjmp
isn't that nice, really) myself a while ago. Another nice property of this
would be that C frames have dynamic extent (they could be garbage
collected).

Perhaps I find some time to dig deeper into this...


cheers,
felix