Questions tagged [coroutines]
For questions about design and implementation of coroutines, a generalization of subroutines that can be paused and resumed. Indicate in the question whether the coroutines are symmetric or asymmetric, stackful or stackless, and first-class or not.
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How are coroutines implemented in a tree-walking interpreter?
It seems to me that coroutines and derived abstractions like the iterators and generators are implemented the following way:
When returning
Move the function's stack frame to the heap
Save a pointer ...
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What are the benefits of stackful vs. stackless coroutines?
Many languages that use async nowadays are implemented via stackless coroutines. That is, in a language like Python or Javascript, when you ...
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Why do so few languages have this type of coroutine feature?
I used to code a lot in a language called Supercollider, which is a domain-specific language for sound synthesis and computer music.
One really nice feature it has is coroutines. Python also has these ...
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Why can many languages' futures not be canceled?
I noticed that many languages' built-in asynchronous Future cannot be canceled once called.
Although many third-party libraries provide this ability, it is not ...
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How continuations compiles generators and coroutines?
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I have seen many places saying that CPST (continuation-passing style transformation) can express all control flows, but the examples they give are relatively simple and do not involve any ...
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How do I implement coroutines on WebAssembly?
I am building a compiler targeting WebAssembly for a language that makes heavy use of first-class coroutines. WASM doesn't have native coroutine support (yet), so I have to emulate it. Given the ...
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