[r6rs-discuss] Thoughts on Scheme's Future

[John Cowan]

Joe Marshall scripsit:

>     2.  First-class continuations should NOT be used as a model or
>          implementation of threads.  (You can crudely mimic time-division
>          multiplexing, but not true asynchronous parallel computation.)

My personal view is that we want call/cc (or at the least semi-coroutines,
which are equivalent to one-shot continuations), and we want fast cheap
Posix-style processes.  Threads-as-we-know-them are just a mess.

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