[Ecls-list] Stack saving: any interest?

[Morgon Kanter]

>
> I think CL as a whole has ignored the whole stack-saving paradigm
> (continuations, coroutines, etc) to a fault, and it would be nice to have
> at least one implementation that allowed real green threads (or something
> like it).
>

The thing that really gets me about this is that some implementations (at
least CCL) had this, but then deprecated and removed it in favor of native
operating system threads.


> A question though: would error handling/catch/throw/etc and all that work
> the same when operating inside or around green threads?
>

That's the goal, anyway, but I suppose I'll see how far I can get with it.
I'm currently elbow-deep in the garbage collection code, and I don't
actually know that much about garbage collectors :-P

Cheers,
-- Morgon
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