Fake threads (was [Python-Dev] ActiveState & fork & Perl)

[Christian Tismer]

Tim Peters wrote:
...
> BTW, many optimizing Schemes define a weaker form of continuation too
> (call/ec, for "escaping continuation").  Skipping the mumbo jumbo definition
> <0.9 wink>, you can only invoke one of those if its target is on the path
> back from the invoker to the root of the call tree (climb up tree like
> Cheetah, not leap across branches like Tarzan).  This amounts to a
> setjmp/longjmp in C -- and may be implemented that way!

Right, maybe this would do enough. We will throw away what's
not needed, when we know what we actually need...

> i-say-do-it-right-or-not-at-all<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim

...and at the moment I think it was right to take it all.

just-fixing-continuations-spun-off-in-an-__init__-which-
-is-quite-hard-since-still-recursive,-and-I-will-ship-it-ly y'rs 

- chris

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