Coro in Java 8

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Le 27 avr. 2011 à 22:01, Charles Oliver Nutter a écrit :

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>> Yes,  100% agree.
>> Coroutine can also be used to implement generators in Java,
>> introducing yield in the release that introduce lambda make a lot of
>> sense for me.
> 
> Yeah, the Java platform is moving toward:
> 
> * Lightweight concurrency models (actors, fork/join)
> * Functional models (closures)
> 
> Coroutines fit *perfectly* into both areas as pausable/resumable units
> of work or for supporting pausable/resumable functions and closures.
> 
> Java 8 should be the "functional concurrency" release, and coro should
> go along with that.

Having tail call optimization support would also fit nicely under
the "functional concurrency" subtitle for JDK8.


Xavier