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..., and send off a message to a > timer scheduler that will send out a message with a timeout of a > certain ID that it will send back after a time-delay.  If a message is That's a handy idea. This technique reminds me of Orc, if you haven't seen it you should check it out: http://orc.csres.utexas.edu/ > I use no locking primitives for the things that are multi-threaded > (such as the timer) with liberal use of instructions such as atomic > compare-and-swap (my favorite, well, most used anyway, I also wrote Funny you should mention this. I've spent the better part of t...

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jonathan D. Turner <jonathan.d.turner at gmail.com> wrote: > I saw this was mentioned briefly last year, but there seemed to be > some confusion as to what coroutines entailed and the thread died out. >  This technique has an unfortunate number of names, but it does get a > lot of use, including popular languages like Ruby. > > I'm

I saw this was mentioned briefly last year, but there seemed to be some confusion as to what coroutines entailed and the thread died out. This technique has an unfortunate number of names, but it does get a lot of use, including popular languages like Ruby. I'm currently working on a programming language called Minnow (http://www.minnow-lang.org). It's an actor-based language, where