Stackless/microthreads merge news

Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Tue May 2 16:25:29 EDT 2000


Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> wrote:
> Will Ware wrote:
[snip]
>> If a stackless version of Kaffe could be developed, it might be
>> possible to convince Kaffe's maintainer (Tom Wilkinson, owner of
>> the transvirtual.com site) to fold the changes into its official
>> distribution. It would give him an advantage over Sun, so before
>> too long, they might follow suit.

> Hey, this is just an incredible idea.
> Java with first class continuations, let that
> drop through your brains. 90 percent of java threads
> would be replaced by microthreads.

> I will read the Kaffe source and think how this must be.

> It can become quite a revolution for Java.

> bye-bye-Python-I-have-no-time-for-your-for-quite-a-long-time-ly y'rs - chris

Oh no! Please don't let that be true!

Will, what have you done!? :)

Regards,

Martijn
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