Stackless/microthreads merge news

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Tue May 2 21:08:34 EDT 2000


> 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.

Quite. I corresponded with the Kiev implementors a while
back, asking them why they hadn't added continuations to
Java. They responded back with "impossible on the JVM".
But that misses the point. Stacklessness adds performance
boosts in certain areas of computing that can't be denied.



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