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On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, dan@sidhe.org wrote: > Yep. But serializing continuations is either tough, or not > completely doable, since programs tend to have handles on things > outside their direct control like filehandles, sockets, database > connections, and suchlike things. Resuming a continuation that's > been frozen but also has an open DB handle is... an interesting > problem. :) I've always thought that a language that implemented FREEZE() and THAW() blocks would be very cool indeed. Java's EJB persistence is extremely useful, but there you always need the safety webbing of a container. I'm pretty sure that if we could save the state of everything else on the interpreter level, people won't mind losing and having to reestablish OS-level resources. At least I wouldn't. Currently I have to do twice as much work to resume execution anyhow. Sorry if this has been duly dissected before, I just thought in the context of continuations it would be a worthwhile side avenue. TedThread Previous | Thread Next