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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Subject: Re: implementing continuations
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In article <james-2111961222010001@slip-74-12.ots.utexas.edu>,
james@clyde.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney) wrote:

> How can one implement continuations in a virtual machine that uses a 
> contiguous memory stack? I've read "Arch of Symbolic Computers"
> section on implementing continuations which relies on a CONS cell
> stack. This allows the stack to be a tree actually if several runs
> of the continuation change the stack. However with a contiguous
> memory stack it would seem that you have to copy the stack.
> 
> I would like to implement continuations for a virtual machine
> I am writing. Are there any online articles on implementing 
> continuations? Web searches have not turned up anything.
> 
>    --- james mccartney     james@clyde.as.utexas.edu    james@lcsaudio.com

See:

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/CheneyMTA.html  (also .ps.Z)
