stack-bound vs. travelling closures proposal.

Rémi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr
Thu Jun 17 16:05:10 PDT 2010


Le 17/06/2010 14:31, Doug Lea a écrit :
> On 06/17/10 08:19, Neal Gafter wrote:
>    
>> You're observing that people don't use checked exceptions much today,
>> and they aren't well supported (e.g. in concurrency scenarios).
>>      
> That was one of the observations. The short version of the
> second one is that
>     * We don't know how to efficiently process closures performing
>       blocking or failing IO.
>    

What if VMs have continuation or coroutine support ?
see 
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/11/22/nio-server-continuation-java

>     * We don't have a reasonable way to ban only IO (or force
>       explicit evasion of the ban) without banning all checked exceptions.
>
> -Doug
>    

Rémi


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