Re: [Chicken-users] Async IO (was Re: libcurl?)

[Thomas Chust]

Am 04.10.2005, 20:46 Uhr, schrieb Peter Keller <address@hidden>:

> [...]
> What if the messages that a message passing system used were themselves
> continuations? Chicken already compiles to continuation passing style,
> so what would it mean to package up the continuation and move it to  
> another
> machine for execution? How much state would have to go with it?
> [...]

Hello,

CHICKEN does not have any feature that would make continuations  
serializable; it would mean that you somehow have to transform machine  
pointers to arbitrary memory locations where your continuations' assembler  
code lives into stuff that can portably be transferred over a network  
connection.

If you get this working, I honestly have to congratulate you -- I tried it  
once (trying to cook up something like Kali Scheme on CHICKEN basis) but  
failed miserably to come up with any decent, let alone portable or even  
elegant solution. The day anyone has a really brilliant idea how to solve  
the problem, I will certainly resume this dead project of mine -- it would  
be a wonderful toy ;)

cu,
Thomas