[PRL] [plt-internal] Video of Clojure talk

[Robby Findler]

fibers are what Manticore calls a "raw" continuation (ie one without
dynamic-wind stuff or any of the other baggage a call/cc or other
continuation accumulates). I don't know if that's what he's referring
to (or if Manticore got the term from elsewhere), tho.

Robby

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> John Rose!  He was one of the architects of the Scheme/C interface on
> the Xerox PARC Portable Common Runtime (which spawned conservative
> GC).  So at least he knows what he's talking about.
>
> Rose says
>
>  small-scale continuation-like structures might also be the right way
> to make coroutines (generators, fibers, etc.)
>
> Anyone got a quick summary of what a "fiber" is and where it comes from?
>
> Shriram
>
>