"Stackless" XEmacs?

Michael Sperber sperber at deinprogramm.de
Fri May 2 02:19:26 EDT 2008


David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

> There is one Scheme implementation (I always forget its name, it is some
> simple thing or animal) which does continuations by calling using the C
> stack, but never returning, and occasionally garbage-collecting the
> entire stack.  This is what I call programmer chutzpah.

That would be Chicken, building on an old idea by Henry Baker:

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/
http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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