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At 12:43 AM +0200 7/5/02, Jerome Vouillon wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 05:08:25PM -0400, Melvin Smith wrote:
>> Since context switches are not the norm (and register/stack accesses _are_)
>> we decided to use a memcpy to switch them rather than using a
>> pointer to a context.
>
>So, more than 2 kilobyte will be copied for each co-routine call?
Yep, looks that way currently. Should be reasonably tunable.
>(Save the caller context, restore the co-routine context, execute the
> co-routine, save the co-routine context, restore the caller context.)
>
>This looks rather expansive to me!
>(Think about an iterator over a list, for instance.)
So try another way and benchmark the differences. If your scheme
works better, it'll go in.
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Dan
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