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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!agate!anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU!bh
  2. From: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
  4. Subject: Re: Are interpreters now as fast as compiled code used to be?
  5. Message-ID: <1gocpvINN3i8@agate.berkeley.edu>
  6. Date: 16 Dec 92 23:06:39 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec15.201735.21731@netcom.com> <GJR.92Dec15214517@klosters.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec16.190713.20460@netcom.com>
  8. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.cs.berkeley.edu
  11.  
  12. thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
  13. >This is why Dylan should have continuations.  The only target
  14. >Dylan platform that causes problems for continuations is the Mac
  15. >without PMMU.
  16.  
  17. Implementation inefficiency isn't the only problem with continuations.  The
  18. other problem is that nobody understands them.  I used to think that it was
  19. only I who don't understand them, until I noticed how RNRS keeps having
  20. corrections to R(N-1)RS because of some thought-to-be-well-understood feature
  21. that breaks when continuations are used.
  22.