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...s. Could probably be quite a > bit of copying, but if the guarantee is important, I'm guessing this > is cheaper than tracking all pointers. I could easily be completely > wrong. > I'll investigate on how that is achieved in Erlang, so I can ask more precise questions. I knew protothreads, but I still have to figure out the limitations resulting from the fact that local variables are not preserved when the protothread blocks. Is protothreads library able to keep a bunch of living threads during program's life that exchange data through message passing? Thanks for your suggesti...

2008/7/24 Owen Anderson <resistor at mac.com>: >> * They are isolated and the only way to exchange information is >> message passing >> > This one is hard to guarantee in a compiled context, unless you > implement a lot of stuff to track pointer values. Remember, all of > these threads will be sharing an address space. If you want true > protection, you'll

...ering on the way this could be achieved. > > What I know from microthreads are things like: > > * They don't have their own stack > * Switching between threads is controlled by the application, not > the OS These two can be done in C pretty easily. Try googling for "protothreads" for a library that implements this. To see how it looks in LLVM, compile it down to bitcode and take a look. > * They are isolated and the only way to exchange information is > message passing > This one is hard to guarantee in a compiled context, unless you implement a lot...

Hi, Sorry for the vagueness. I'm starting to think about an experimental programming language based, among other things, on microthreads, or green threads, as Erlang has. I'm still under a very vague stage, just thinking on it, so I was wondering on the way this could be achieved. What I know from microthreads are things like: * They don't have their own stack * Switching between