From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Generators/coroutines in future Ada?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:33:34 +0200
Date: 2017-07-10T09:33:34+02:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: eo65mc57j9ggrpb7o41hedh60rcs4hb5r2@4ax.com
On 09/07/2017 23:28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> I wouldn't hold out much hope for coroutines. Ada was created from the
> start with the concept of independent tasking (all the way back before
> 1980!). Formal co-routines (a la Modula-2) do not fit the philosophy as
> they are a cooperative "task" switch (in classic co-routines, each routine
> determines when it will transfer control to another, and possibly where in
> that other transfer goes to -- it was even doable in FORTRAN-IV when
> statement labels could be passed in/out of a call). I've never studied the
> Python "co-routine" but it does not map to what I consider a co-routine.
Instead of co-routine we could talk about non-scheduled tasks or
user-scheduled tasks. [What is actually needed is local stack without
scheduling overhead.]
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2017-07-09 20:19 Generators/coroutines in future Ada? Victor Porton
2017-07-09 21:28 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-07-09 23:56 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-10 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2017-07-10 13:38 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-10 17:01 ` Paul Rubin
2017-07-10 21:24 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-12 17:09 ` Paul Rubin
2017-07-12 17:39 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-13 6:35 ` Paul Rubin
2017-07-11 9:42 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-11 12:52 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-11 13:01 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-11 13:26 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-11 16:04 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-07-11 16:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-11 19:52 ` Pascal Obry
2017-07-11 20:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-11 18:36 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-11 19:22 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-11 20:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-11 23:19 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-12 4:54 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-07-12 13:07 ` Victor Porton
2017-07-12 13:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 5:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-12 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 22:47 ` Shark8
2017-07-16 13:11 ` Robert Eachus
2017-07-17 23:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-07-18 7:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 7:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 6:35 ` G.B.
2017-07-12 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 20:49 ` G.B.
2017-07-13 8:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-07-12 17:34 ` Paul Rubin
2017-07-11 19:27 ` Simon Wright
2017-07-12 5:42 ` darkestkhan
2017-07-12 8:57 ` Maciej Sobczak
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