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Re^3: Parrot 0.8.0, "Pareto principle" released!

by metaperl (Curate)
on Oct 24, 2008 at 14:27 UTC ( [id://719348]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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in thread Parrot 0.8.0, "Pareto principle" released!

yes, that was a rather vague question.

When I said stackless versus stack, I wasnt referring to a stack as a data structure (as used in forth/factor/joy), but in the sense of stackless python which is not actually stackless, but separates the frame stack from the C stack.

Now practically what that means for me is continuations in the language as opposed to a library like Contize which allows for succinct web programming. The stackless python homepage mentions other benefits.

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Re^4: Parrot 0.8.0, "Pareto principle" released!
by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 24, 2008 at 15:36 UTC
    Well, parrot uses CPS (continuation passing style) for control flow, and I'm pretty sure it's stackless in the sense that a call to HLL function doesn't imply a function call (which would use the stack) in the vm. So it's easy to implement language-level coroutines efficiently.

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