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http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/date/20080504 Sunday May 04, 2008

continuations in the VM

Or, how to finish a job twice.

Or, anything worth starting is anything worth starting is anything worth starting is anything worth starting is ...

A continuation, simply put, is a reference to the rest of some program P, as of some given point in the midst of P. It is an interesting design problem to introduce continuations into the JVM. I don't know of a full design for JVM continuations, yet, but it's possible to observe both the easy and the hard parts, and to survey some of the reasons we should care. [Read More]

Posted by jrose [JVM] ( May 04, 2008 11:59 PM ) Permalink | Comments[7]