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Hi, I am toying with an idea of having LLVM generate code that has position-independent stacks. This would be a very useful property for implementing all sorts of micro-thread libraries (I am thinking something similar to Python greenlets <http://stackoverflow.com/a/17447308>), because you'd be able to easily save threadlet state from one OS thread and later restore it into another.

...laining further: > > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RD3bxsBfTZOIfrlq7HzGMsygPHgb61A1eTdelIYOurs/edit > > Cheers, > Mark > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20140123/792040e9/attachment.html>