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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]
Message-ID: <ojvake$1npj$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
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.]

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-10  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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