Microthreads is now available

[Robin Becker]

In message <38E1FAC8.6E5F21DA at tismer.com>, Christian Tismer
<tismer at tismer.com> writes
...
thanks for your response. I guess I should get into uthreads or medusa
for reasons to be stackless

>> user acceptance. Should I download the source to get further
>> information?
>
>No. The sources are hard to understand, and they describe
>the implementation, not the usage. There are no examples
>at the moment, since they all need a rewrite.
>A collection of useful stuff is in preparation.
>
>There is a principal problem with this stuff: It makes no sense
>to explain in depth how and why continuations work, since this
>is nothing for more than just a few interested people.
>Most users would only use applications, like generators,
>coroutines, and microthreads. That means, I don't have to
>supply documentaiton of the inner nuts and bolts, but I
>have to provide complete, tested applications like the above.
>
>I think the Microthreads have good documentation and
>give enough motivation to make use of SLP. I could not
>delay the release any longer, since MThreads are ready
>since 3 weeks, and they rely completely on SLP now.
>I could have included the uthreads package into the
>distribution, but this is Will Ware's kid which I cannot
>simply stick into my dist, unless he tells me to do so.
>
>The continuation module has quite complete
>documentation via docstrings, now.
>
>Sam Rushing is working on a new design of coroutines.
>I didn't want to provide the old code examples any longer.
>Code examples will appear on the website as they evolve,
>and some will go into the binary release's demo section.
>
>ciao - chris
>

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Robin Becker