Coroutines in JDK8++?

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Mark,

On 3 April 2012 00:40, Mark Roos <mroos at roos.com> wrote:

> Hi Martijn
>
> If the effort meets my needs I'll be there to help.  My goal is a full
> implementation
> of Smalltalk on the JVM.  One thing I need is the ability to manipulate a
> suspended
> thread from the object side.  For this Lukas' work seems a good fit.


Sounds good, I know I've heard of a Smalltalk port that is already in
existence, is this your work?

My concern is that (as John Rose points out) this will open a security hole
> that makes
> Java folks uncomfortable.  As such the final result could be political not
> technical, not
> a battle I would relish.


I think that's why we should first get a good OSS project around this and
then have a full discussion as soon
as possible (e.g. When the right people have got some cycles to think about
this properly/deeply).

Cheers,
Martijn
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